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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... nature in all its animal and vegetative forms.18 This complex of associations is reflected in religious practice : women are closest to the deities concerned with fertility and perform - usually in the absence of men - many of the ...
... nature of the proceedings can be gleaned from the similarities between women's behavior at the Thesmophoria and the common activities of men . While women's role in public life was almost entirely limited to religious ritual , men's ...
... nature of their fervor to participate in civil war . Cato and Marcia's mirroring thus adds the blurring of gender lines to the epic's cen- tral themes of general dissolution of boundaries and loss of identity . At the same time , it ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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