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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... female traditions of song , and to this end she draws on ethnographic comparanda.39 Faraone's account of the process through which the Hippocratics ' con- cept of the " wandering womb " evolved into an evil animal subject to treat- ment ...
... female pagan pantheon continued to exert in the area of sexual reproduction in the eyes of early Christian writers , who condemned vehemently the competing worship of female goddesses such as Artemis , Eileithyia , and Aphrodite . In ...
... female dwarf be construed as magic devices to ensure fertility ? We know that deformity was derided in ancient Greece , and religious officials were not allowed to be deformed in any way . It is therefore difficult at first to ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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