Readings and discussions include:
Primordial Goddess cosmologies. The Moirae.
Pythias, Black Doves, and other oracular women
Greek patriarchy: Athens, Sparta, and older substrates
Priestesses, temples, women's ceremonies; constraints, appropriations and displacements.
Mythic conquests (of goddesses under rape culture).
Demonizing the women of Lemnos and Libya.
Mysteries of the Two Goddesses (Demeter and Persephone)
Kybele and Rhea. Maenads and bacchantes.
Female philosophers and poets.
Greek witches, and the sexual, ethnic, and class politics of persecution
Circe, Medea, and Hekate.