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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... served to project a relationship of physical closeness with the di- vinity . Next she shows how women's ritual energies created an agency of a new kind . Originating in the women - only context of the Thesmophoria , women's worship of ...
... served ) four times as duovir for five years , and for Tamudia Severa , daughter of Marcus Tamudius , a public priestess of Ceres . Marcus Caesius Magnus and Caesia Severa twice gave this as a gift for their parents . 3 ) M. Alleio ...
... served to reinforce the goddess's association with that luminous sphere , another element in her ar- senal of attributes associated with dark , mysterious , and irrational forces.2 Furthermore , the sanctuary's personnel were recruited ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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