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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... refer only to select publications : Demand 1994 discusses the realities that inform women's roles in birth , motherhood , and death ; Sinos and Oakley 1993 , Rehm 1994 , and Treggiari 1991 consider Greek and Roman wedding rituals and ...
... refer to actual mothers and has come to function in- stead as an honorific appellative applied to older women who have an inti- mate relationship with the speaker . All twelve uses in Homer come from the Odyssey , and eleven are direct ...
... refer to " mother substitutes " of various sorts , and it seems clearly employed to accommodate the insertion of the father . In- deed , it is tempting to suppose that it was the inspired creation of none other than Gaius Julius Epianax ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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