Female Anatomical Votive Offerings
Female Anatomical Votive Offerings: A look into this ancient religious healing/medical practice with a dive into the female side of things! … More Female Anatomical Votive Offerings
Female Anatomical Votive Offerings: A look into this ancient religious healing/medical practice with a dive into the female side of things! … More Female Anatomical Votive Offerings
Who were the Vestal Virgins? The Vestal Virgins were comprised of six priestesses, at a time, who worshipped the goddess of the hearth, Vesta. Their responsibility was to tend to Vesta’s flame, which was located in her temple, in the heart of Ancient Rome (Greenfield 2017). The sacred flame of Vesta was representative of the … More The Vestal Virgins: How their ideals of viriginity have carried over into modern Christianity
A glimpse into the lives of girls living in Ancient Greece.
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Who, What, Where, When, Why? The remaining evidence for the existence of ancient Greek cults is often ambiguous. There are very few known details of what actually took place during religious ceremonies, rites, and festivals in classical Greece—as many religious practices were intentionally kept mysterious. The excavations of the site of Brauron in Attica however, have … More The Cult of Artemis at Brauron