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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... play , is hardly positive . For Danaus , in the lost part of the trilogy , becomes ruler of Argos and orders his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night . They execute his order , and thus their incorporation into the ...
... play proclaims that Medea is the murderess , the rite that Medea founds , by linking up to the historical rite , shifts the guilt to the Corinthians , who paradoxically must atone for a mur- der they did not commit . Medea not only ...
... play for my dis- cussion because Iphigeneia is so clearly poised between two versions of ritual : that which governs ... play offers for consid- eration are those of marriage and death . Marriage is very prevalent in the play , albeit ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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