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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... Thesmophoria- like ritual . The Mysteries have their closest cult affinities with the ancient Thesmophoria . 52 They share the myth of Demeter's grief and revival , and a number of agricultural elements at home in the Thesmophoria ...
... Thesmophoria , when the seed was about to be sown . The Lucian scholion ( Dial . Court . 2.1 ) implies that both the throwing down and the bailing up took place at the Thesmophoria . Phallic images made of dough and pine branches . may ...
... Thesmophoria and not the Eleusinian Myster- ies . Goff ( 2004 , 128 ) gives other references to women's honoring the female genitals at the Thesmophoria . 44. Demeter asks for a kykeon after Iambe has made her laugh in the Hymn to ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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