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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... Give to the earth and the earth will give to you " ( 1977 , 175 ) . In a similar vein , I argue that the women's work - songs , beyond the immediate present , are vested with a symbolic logic . THE RISE OF THE DEMON WOMB IN GRECO ...
... gives a thorough and learned discussion of the " creation theology " that informs the PGM VII exorcism and the Aramaic one from the Cairo Geniza . 12. I give the translation of J. Scarborough in GMPT with some minor changes . See Aubert ...
... give birth to a son ( so Rudhardt 1975 , 117 ) . We may thus understand the ritual to have been instituted to make amends for Theseus ' absence , and its performance to be an annual reminder of the im- portance of the father's presence ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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