Cult of the Captured Bride

In a society where men set the rules, a community of empowered women struck fear in their hearts... but nowhere was this male fear more evident than in the stories about the brutality of the Thesmophoria's citizen wives. From butchered men to the sacred knowledge of fertility, was there a moment in ancient Greece when women ruled supreme? Inspired by the Goddess Demeter herself and drawing on this Neolithic past, ancient women found a way to find power for themselves.