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 to female characters in the plays of Plautus and Terence ( Peppe 1984 , 14 ) . The link between female religious roles and women's public standing within their communities is addressed by Tzanetou in her introduction to this ...
... 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 ...
... refer to as the couvade to those barbaroi ( 5.14.1-3 ) living on the island of Corsica , not far from his native Sicily : The strangest thing that happens among them happens in the context of childbirth . Whenever a woman gives birth ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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