Finding Persephone: Women's Rituals in the Ancient MediterraneanMaryline G. Parca, Angeliki Tzanetou Indiana University Press, 2007 - 327 strán (strany) Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many public arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and classical antiquity will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain. |
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... Greek documentary texts ( mostly papyri and ostraca ) recovered in Egypt . ' Those texts are usually edited and explicated by philologists , archaeologists , and historians of classical antiquity — most of whom are neither trained in ...
... Greek name Nuuqiwv ( Nymphion ) makes it clear that here Demeter is the Greek deity ( Quaegebeur 1983 , 306 ) . The lesson to be drawn from such texts is that while in a Greek papyrus Deme- ter can designate an indigenous goddess ...
... Greek guise ( following the inter- pretatio graeca principle ) or , at other times , may actually be meant to repre- sent the Egyptian equivalent of a Greek deity.30 Anyone perusing catalogues of terracottas in search of Demeter en ...
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Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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