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Empowerment Of Mortal And Divine Females In The Iliad: A Feminist Study Of The Matristic Archetypes In Homer, Javier Betancourt
Empowerment Of Mortal And Divine Females In The Iliad: A Feminist Study Of The Matristic Archetypes In Homer, Javier Betancourt
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
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Barbarian Bond: Thracian Bendis Among The Athenians, Corinne Ondine Pache
Barbarian Bond: Thracian Bendis Among The Athenians, Corinne Ondine Pache
Classical Studies Faculty Research
In this chapter, I gather the evidence for the Athenian cult of the Thracian goddess Bendis, who was officially worshipped both by Thracians and by Athenian citizens from the end of the fifth century B.C. on. I also compare the historical record with the literary characterizations of the Thracians, and I examine the connection between religious, political, and ethnic identity and the ways in which the cult of Bendis reflects ambivalent Athenian attitudes toward their northern neighbors. The cult of Bendis in Athens reproduces on the level of ritual the polarity of Greeks versus barbarians that exists on the level …