Barbette Spaeth

Barbette Stanley Spaeth is an American academic who is an associate professor at College of William and Mary,^[1] and is an expert in Roman mythology.^[2] She is past secretary of the Williamsburg Society, Archaeological Institute of America,^[3] and president of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions.^[4]

She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a PhD.

Spaeth wrote her doctoral dissertation on Ceres,^[5] The Roman Goddess Ceres.^[6] She was a professor at Tulane University, from 1987 to 2001.^[7]

She has won awards for her work in academia.^[8]

Selected publications

• Spaeth, Barbette Stanley, "The Goddess Ceres and the Death of Tiberius Gracchus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1990.
• Spaeth, Barbette Stanley (1996). The Roman goddess Ceres. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77693-7.

See also

• Aventine Triad
• Cerealia
• Crisis of the Roman Republic
• Enna
• Liber and Libera (mythology)
• Mother goddess
• Sexuality in ancient Rome
• Women in ancient Rome