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The Virgin Before Mary: Sacred Maidens, Parthenoi, and the Cult of the Untouched
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Primary Ancient Sources
Ambrose of Milan. De Virginibus / Concerning Virgins.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis.
Euripides. Iphigenia among the Taurians.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Jerome. Against Helvidius: On the Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary.
The Gospel According to Matthew, chapters 1–2.
The Gospel According to Luke, chapters 1–2.
Ovid. Fasti.
Pausanias. Description of Greece.
Philo of Alexandria. On the Contemplative Life.
Plutarch. Life of Numa.
Protoevangelium of James / Infancy Gospel of James.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla.
Core Academic Sources
Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Translated by John Raffan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Castelli, Elizabeth A. “Virginity and Its Meaning for Women’s Sexuality in Early Christianity.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2, no. 1 (1986).
Cole, Susan Guettel. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Foskett, Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. “Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 8, no. 2 (2005).
Lillis, Julia Kelto. Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.
Parker, Robert. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
Sissa, Giulia. Greek Virginity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. Studies in Girls’ Transitions: Aspects of the Arkteia and Age Representation in Attic Iconography. Athens: Kardamitsa, 1988.
Wildfang, Robin Lorsch. Rome’s Vestal Virgins: A Study of Rome’s Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Greek Women, Ritual, and Sacred Maidens
Beard, Mary. “The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins.” Journal of Roman Studies 70 (1980).
Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. Vol. 1, A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Connelly, Joan Breton. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Dillon, Matthew. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. N
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Primary Ancient Sources
Ambrose of Milan. De Virginibus / Concerning Virgins.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
Euripides. Iphigenia at Aulis.
Euripides. Iphigenia among the Taurians.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Jerome. Against Helvidius: On the Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary.
The Gospel According to Matthew, chapters 1–2.
The Gospel According to Luke, chapters 1–2.
Ovid. Fasti.
Pausanias. Description of Greece.
Philo of Alexandria. On the Contemplative Life.
Plutarch. Life of Numa.
Protoevangelium of James / Infancy Gospel of James.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla.
Core Academic Sources
Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion. Translated by John Raffan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Castelli, Elizabeth A. “Virginity and Its Meaning for Women’s Sexuality in Early Christianity.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 2, no. 1 (1986).
Cole, Susan Guettel. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
Foskett, Mary F. A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025.
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook. “Revisiting the Daughters of the Covenant: Women’s Choirs and Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 8, no. 2 (2005).
Lillis, Julia Kelto. Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.
Parker, Robert. Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
Sissa, Giulia. Greek Virginity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. Studies in Girls’ Transitions: Aspects of the Arkteia and Age Representation in Attic Iconography. Athens: Kardamitsa, 1988.
Wildfang, Robin Lorsch. Rome’s Vestal Virgins: A Study of Rome’s Vestal Priestesses in the Late Republic and Early Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Greek Women, Ritual, and Sacred Maidens
Beard, Mary. “The Sexual Status of Vestal Virgins.” Journal of Roman Studies 70 (1980).
Beard, Mary, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. Vol. 1, A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Connelly, Joan Breton. Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Dillon, Matthew. Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
Pomeroy, Sarah B. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. N