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The Priestess of Hera at Argos was the High Priestess of the Goddess Hera, the protective city deity of Ancient Argos, on the Heraion of Argos in Argos. It was the highest religious office in Ancient Argos, and the person who held it enjoyed great prestige and played an official role.
Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [13] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...
Chrysis (or Chryseis, Ancient Greek: Χρυσίς [1] or Χρυσηίς [2]) was the priestess of Hera at the ancient Greek sanctuary of Hera at Argos at the time of the Peloponesian War. She is known for having inadvertently caused a fire that led to the destruction of the temple.
Argos seemed to concentrate its changes to the lower terrace. [25] First, Argos connected the two stoas built in the 6th century with a staircase leading up to the Old temple Terrace. [25] There was also new construction to the east of the Heraion's site in the form of the establishment of the rectangular East Building. [25]
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Plutarch (first century CE) is the earliest source for her name that is now available to us. Surely much intervening literature regarding Cydippe the priestess of Hera has been lost, since Plutarch was writing about 500 years after Herodotus first told the story. [2]
The privileges of the priestess differed widely between temples. Normally, the priestess was given an income from the city, since the office was regarded as a public office. [1] In addition to this, she was also awarded for each ritual and festival she participated in, and given fees for special rituals she performed for private people. [1]
Priestess of Hera at Argos; Pythia; S. Hellespontine Sibyl; T. Themistoclea; X. Xenoclea This page was last edited on 26 July 2014, at 23:19 (UTC). Text is ...