DoomsdaysCW<p>More about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roman</span></a> Priestesses</p><p>An ancient priesthood of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hera</span></a> at Olympia involved “sixteen elderly women” (Connelly, 45), based on a “board of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FemaleElders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FemaleElders</span></a> once chosen from sixteen cities” (Connelly, 45) who negotiated “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> between two cities’ (Connelly, 45) who had been at war. <br> <br>“Priestesses seem to have initiated and negotiated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/amendments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amendments</span></a>, and penalties for transgressions” (Connelly, 214). Some priestesses wielded enormous influence: the Pythia of Delphi “could move scores of people to action” (Connelly, 219), and a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pythia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pythia</span></a> “is credited with having provided <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Lykourgos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lykourgos</span></a> with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spartan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spartan</span></a> system of government”.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientWomen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PostMenopausalWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostMenopausalWomen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RomanWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanWomen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientRome</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RomanPriesthood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomanPriesthood</span></a></p>