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To help dispel the nonsense that women were not honored in ancient Greece, a list of priestess titles and priestesses.

11/3/2016

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To help dispel the nonsense that women were not honored in ancient Greece, a list of priestess titles and priestesses.
 
PRIESTESSES:
 
ἀγρεταί priestesses of Athena at Cos
 
ἀθλοφόρος, ἡ, title of priestess at Alexandria
 
αἰγίς dress worn by priestess of Athena
 
ἀντλήτρια, ἡ,  priestess at the Thesmophoria
 
ἀρχείνη, ἡ, title of priestess
 
ἀρχεῖτις, ἡ, title of priestess at Thasos
 
ἀρχηΐς, ίδος, ἡ, title of priestess
 
ἀρχῐεράομαι, to be high-priest or priestess
 
ἀρχῐερεια, ἡ, chief-priestess
 
ἀφροδῑτολειτορεύω, serve as priestess of Aphrodite
 
βωμίστρια, ἡ, priestess
 
γεραιράδες or γεραράδες priestesses of Athena at Argos
 
γεραραί priestesses of Dionysus
 
διαβήτρια, ἡ, a kind of priestess
 
ἑστία title of a priestess
 
εὐαγγελίς  title of a priestess
 
Εὐία name or title of a priestess
 
ἠρεσίδες, αἱ, priestesses of Hera at Argos
 
Ἡσῠχίδες, αἱ, priestesses of the Eumenides
 
θᾰλᾰμηπολος a priestess of Cybele
 
θαλάσσιαι, name of certain priestesses at Cyzicus
 
θᾰλῡσιάς,  a priestess of Demeter
 
ἱεράομαι be a priest or priestess
 
ἱερᾱτεύω to be priest or priestess
 
ἱαρέα or ἱάρεα a priestess
 
ἱέρεια a priestess
 
ἱρήτειρα, ἡ,  priestess
 
ἱροπόλος, ὁ, ἡ, priest or priestess
 
κᾰνηφορος title of priestess
 
Κᾰρύαι priestess of Artemis
 
Κᾰρῠάτῐδες,  priestesses of Artemis at Caryae
 
Καύεις title of priestess of Artemis at Sardis
 
κλειδουχος holding the keys: hence, having charge or custody of a place, Ἰώ κ. Ἥρας her priestess
 
κομμώ, οῦς, ἡ, priestess who adorned the seated statue of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens
 
κοσμώ, οῦς, ἡ, priestess of Pallas
 
κωλῆ the portion for the priestess at a sacrifice
 
ληΐτη, λῄτειρα a public priestess
 
μάντῐς of the Pythian priestess
 
μελλῐέρη, ἡ, probationary priestess, novice
 
μέλισσᾰ priestesses of Delphi
 
Μελισσονόμοι priestesses of Artemis
 
παρῐέρη, ἡ, ex-priestess
 
πέλειαι, αἱ, prophetic priestesses at Dodona
 
προϊεράομαι, to be deputy priest or priestess
 
προπομπός of priestesses of Athena
 
προσιδρύω to be installed in office, of a priestess
 
προστᾰτίνα,  title of priestess at Messene
 
προτονιον, τό, apron worn by sacrificing priestess
 
Πῡθία, Πυθίη  Pythia, priestess of Pythian Apollo at Delphi
 
σκίρον  the large white sunshade which was held by the Eteobutadae over the heads of the priestess of Athena in the procession from the Athenian Acropolis to a place called Σκῖρον or Σκίρον (q.v.) in a festival of Athena
 
σφάκτρια priestess
 
σφρᾱγίς tablet of Lemnian medicinal earth certified as such by bearing the impression of the seal of the Lemnian priestess of Artemis
 
τρᾰπεζοφόρος priestess of Athene at Athens
 
τυμπᾰνιστής of a priestess of Sabazius
 
ὑδροφορος title of priestess at Branchidae, also at Athens, of maidens who served at the Dipolieia
 
ὑπεκκαύστρια, ἡ, she who lights a fire underneath, name of the priestess of Athene at Soli
 
ὑποζάκορος [ᾰ], ὁ or ἡ, under-priest or priestess
 
ὐφιέρεια, ἡ, assistant priestess
 
φῐᾰληφόρος, ἡ, cup-bearer, title of a Locrian priestess
 
φοιβάς, ἡ, priestess of Phoebus: generally, inspired woman, prophetess
 
φωσφόρος, ἡ, torch-bearer, title of a priestess
 
 
SPECIFIC PRIESTESSES:
 
AUGE or AUGEIA (Αὔγη or Αὐγεία), a priestess of Athena
 
AURELIA′NUS His mother officiated as priestess of Sol in the village where she dwelt.
 
CALLIPHANA, a priestess of Velia
 
CA′LYBE (Καλύβη) priestess of Juno
 
Charicleia, priestess of Apollo.
 
Comaetho, a priestess of Artemis Triclaria
 
Cydippe, a priestess of Hera at Argos who rode to the temple of Hera in a chariot
 
DAPHNE  an ancient priestess of the Delphic oracle to which she had been appointed by Ge
 
DIOTI′MA (Διοτίμα), a priestess of Mantineia, and the reputed instructor of Socrates
 
E′RATO a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan.
 
ERI′GONE priestess of Artemis in Attica
 
Hilaeira, a priestess of Athena
 
Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo
 
IODAMEIA (Ἰοδάμεια), a priestess of Athena Itonia
 
Iphias, a priestess
 
Iphigeneia, a priestess of Artemis
 
Lysimache, a priestess of Athena for sixty-four years
 
Medeia, a priestess at Corinth
 
Paculla, the arch-priestess of the Bacchanalia
 
Rhea Silvia, a priestess of Vesta
 
TRITAEA (Τρίταια), a priestess of Athena
 
XENOCLEIA (Ξενόκλεια), a Delphian priestess


(Compiled by Catherine Proppe from the Greek-English Liddell-Scott Lexicon and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.)
 
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