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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... relationship with Demeter . In the classical Greek context much of ritual was directed toward making contact with a god or gods , anthropo- morphically conceived , and a shared desire to activate a relationship with the god gave ritual ...
... relationship of ceremony to the declaration of a valid mar- riage but also for the position of girls as they entered the marriage rela- tionship . As a result , the legal sources destabilize the terms and categories usually used by ...
... relationship , then the ritual might be used simply to an- nounce a relationship that was not intended to be a legal marriage , by part- ners who were clearly ineligible for marriage . As Bruce Frier has recently demonstrated , literary ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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