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Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

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Priestesses, in the Roman world, held unusual levels of power for women—and it's been suggested that this woman might have ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two nearly life-sized sculptures of a man and a woman in a tomb near one of Pompeii's main ...

Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility, and motherhood, was symbolically linked to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvest cycles. This connection could explain ...

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

were women who devoted their lives to the worship and work of Ceres, goddess of harvest and agriculture. They were some of the only public priestesses, and therefore typically came from prominent ...