Divine Women
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- Episode
- Episode 2 - Handmaids of the Gods
- Broadcast Info
- 2012 (58 mins)
- Description
- Award winning historian Bettany Hughes continues her journey into the hidden and controversial history of women’s place in religion. This week she uncovers the lost era of the priestess. She delves into the Ancient Greek worship of the goddess of sex, Aphrodite and finds out what this practice meant for women. She heads to Ancient Rome where the fate of the civilisation lay in the hands of six sacred virgins and she returns to those crucial early years of Christianity where she finds evidence that overturns centuries of Church teaching and challenges the belief that women should not be priests.
- Genre
- History; Culture; Religion; Art and Design
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The Open University, "Divine Women". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/82569 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)