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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... political ends , as Goff and Panoussi demonstrate . Neils examines visual representations ( mostly vase paintings ) of some of the ritual roles performed by Athenian citizen daughters , hetairai , and , pos- sibly , female dwarfs , and ...
... political families of Rome and male public priesthoods is well established . Early in the Republic , public priesthoods and political offices were open only to patricians , thus ensuring the traditional oligarchic leaning of religious ...
... political views , now lost to us . It engages di- rectly with politics and contemporary life and endows women with a con- sciously strong political voice . The task of grinding encapsulates the private and public voices of the woman who ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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