Barbette Stanley Spaeth is an American academic who is an associate professor at College of William and Mary,William and Mary faculty page and is an expert in Roman mythology.She was one of "experts in various subfields" that was compiled to "evaluate whether or not the Roman imperial cult united or divided the peoples of the Roman Empire." She is a former secretary of the Williamsburg Society, Archaeological Institute of America,Archaeological Institute of America website and president of the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions.Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions website
She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a PhD.
Spaeth wrote her doctoral dissertation on The Roman Goddess Ceres."Barbette Stanley Spaeth, The Roman Goddess Ceres", Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.10.17Barbette Stanley Spaeth, The Roman Goddess Ceres (University of Texas Press, 1996). She was a professor at Tulane University, from 1987 to 2001.
She has won awards for her work in academia.See, e.g., 2011 Faculty Governance Awards at William and Mary College
Selected publications Spaeth, Barbette Stanley, "The Goddess Ceres and the Death of Tiberius Gracchus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1990.
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
References
External links LSU website academia website Pamphile's homepage, VROMA