Susan Guettel Cole is Professor Emerita at the

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in the Department of Classics. She is known for her work on Ancient Greek Religion and gender.

Education

Cole received her PhD from the

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in 1975. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.''

Career

After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the

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. In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC. She published ''Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace'', based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986. Her second book, ''Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience'', came out in 2004. She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture. In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the

, where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and again 1998–2004. Cole was chair of the

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Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986. She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990. In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the

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. She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.

Select publications

* 1980. "New Evidence for the Mysteries of Dionysos." ''Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies'' 21.3: 223–238. * 1981. "Could Greek women read and write?" ''Women's Studies,'' ''8''(1-2), * 1984. "Greek Sanctions against Sexual Assault." ''Classical Philology,'' ''79''(2), 97–113. * 1984. "The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia." ''Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik,'' ''55'', 233–244. * 1984. "Male and Female in Greek Cult." ''Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik,'' ''55'', 231. * 1986. ''Theoi Megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace'' . Leiden: Brill. * 2000. "Landscapes of Artemis." ''The Classical World'' 93.5 (2000): 471–81. * 2004. ''Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience''. Berkeley: University of California Press. * 2008. "Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets." ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies,'' ''128'', 221. * 2010. "Maenads." in ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.''

References

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