They are not numbered in a single year of Greek history; and certainty there were many unnamed and unnumbered if there were lists to be found.
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Throughout ancinet Greek history there have been many temples to Apollo built.
No. Neither Athena nor Apollo were married. However, Apollo was known for many affairs, but none with Athena. She was a virgin goddess.
They had the power to to take care and to work for the pharaohs/ gods
The Greek God Apollo would say many different things, if he were a human. He gives advice to people in need through high priestesses who usually responded in a riddle, hard to decipher. The high priestesses would take drugs that would seemingly make them go into a trance, thus communicating with Apollo. Apollo also speaks through dreams and 'visions', which were vivid and highly detailed. These visions and riddles are deciphered by the high priests.
The Pythia at Delphi is Apollo's oracle in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Pythia is the priestess at Apollo's temple on the Delphic slopes of Mount Parnassus. She is one of many oracular priestesses in ancient Greece. All oracles honor Apollo the sun god, but the most respected of them all is the Pythia, the Delphic oracle.
The priestesses lit the candles by the altar.
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Six Vestal Virgins.
Artemis was the goddess of the hunt and the protector of the young (both children and animals). She was a virgin goddess and all her followers (priestesses) had to be virginal too. She is the twin sister of Apollo, a God of the hunt.
Agamemnon sacked the temple and stole the Seer's priestesses, giving one, Briseis, to Achilles, and keeping the other, Chryseis, who so happened to be the Seer's daughter, for himself.
There are no priestesses in Greek Orthodoxy as it showed the difference between them and Pagan religions.
It is not specifically mentioned, but it is assumed that the priestesses are chosen by the gods themselves.
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Yes, Greek women were allowed to participate in religious rites and festivals. Religious rituals gave women an important role in public life. There were female priesthoods, such as the the priestesses of Athena Polias in Athens, Demeter and Kora in Eleusis, Hera in Argos and the oracles. All oracles in the Greek world were women. They were the priestesses of Apollo, the oracular god.
These priestesses were usually employed at temples devoted to music and dancing. They were considered equal to their male counterparts.