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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... wish to ques- tion the veracity of their accounts about where power lies in a given society . The next example challenges the idea that ritual knowledge consid- ered the exclusive property of one gender is always successfully kept ...
... wish to thank William Hansen for sharing with me his unpublished paper , “ Packaging Greek Mythology , " in which he argues that the curiosity motif is a modern addition . 38. Bamberger 1974 makes a similar point for an entirely ...
... wishes to marry Cato , not for the purpose of childbearing , but only to be buried as his wife , to be permanently ... wish to die as Cato's wife ( 343-44 ) , she also claims for herself the Roman female ideal of univira . Marcia thus ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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