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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... young age and the emphasis placed on the authority of the paterfamilias paved the way for their entry into situations of underage co - residence with their future spouses . Early betrothal could also have con- sequences for the timing ...
... Young men are devoted to her because she taught them how to hunt , along with other skills crucial for getting on in life and avoiding the labes fatorum ( " the blows of the fates , " Cyn . 495 ) . Grattius calls the rite , " a lus ...
... young men lies down and wails and does the things women in labor do " ( Plutarch Thes . 20 = Paion FGrH 757 F 2 ) , may have performed a similar function . There has been no scholarly agreement on the function or meaning of this strange ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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