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Portrait Name and Role Period of Activity Region of Origin Description and Legacy Thecla (Disciple of Paul the Apostle) : fl. 30 CE Iconium: Thecla, featured in The Acts of Paul and Thecla, is celebrated for her celibacy, preaching, and advocacy for equality.
[34] [35] Although some were married, upon assuming their role as the Pythia, the priestesses ceased all family responsibilities, marital relations, and individual identity. In the heyday of the oracle, the Pythia may have been a woman chosen from an influential family, well educated in geography, politics, history, philosophy, and the arts.
Priestesses of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (3 P) Pages in category "Ancient Egyptian priestesses" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.
Helen Thorne (2000). Journey to priesthood: an in-depth study of the first women priests in the Church of England.Centre for Comparative Studies in Religion and Gender, University of Bristol.
Priestesses of Hathor worshipped the Goddess in her main shrine which was known as the temple of Hathor, located near the Nile basin. It is estimated that about four hundred priestesses were employed for her. There, improvement was the greatest during the reign of Pharaoh Menkaure. Archaeologists have unearthed several colourful paintings ...
At several sites women priestesses served as oracles, the most famous of which is the Oracle of Delphi. The priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi was the Pythia, credited throughout the Greco-Roman world for her prophecies, which gave her a prominence unusual for a woman in male-dominated ancient Greece.
2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima (National Roman Museum) 1st-century BC (43–39 BC) aureus depicting a seated Vestal Virgin marked vestalis. In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis [wɛsˈtaːlɪs]) were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred hearth and its flame.