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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... adoptions . The interpretive problem begins , I think , with the assumption that if a man and woman together make an offering to Eileithyia on behalf of an adoptive son , there must have existed an accepted ritual category to which it ...
... adoptive parents , which takes us yet one step farther away from Eileithyia's basic function as a goddess of childbirth . And it is possible that the adoptive son in this case was somewhat older than the children who are the subjects of ...
... adoptive father , " 41 although the absence of a single instance of the word μatos , either before the time of Epianax or after , is disquieting . But paradoxically , the use of uaĩou in this inscription is most easily ex- plained if ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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