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Portrait of a Priestess

Joan Breton Connelly

Cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. The author presents a picture of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them (e.g. the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias) - to basket bearers and handmaidens.

HistoryHistory · high confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: Biography -> BiographyBiography & Public Lives

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History2007WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Delphi60%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 50%.