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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... slave was brought into the temple for the express purpose of being beaten and then driven out.11 Such a ritual pointed up the distinction between freeborn women and slaves even more sharply than a simple interdiction on servile ...
... slaves manumitted to become Roman citizens , were also among the dedicants . Slaves under Roman law were defined as animals to some extent , and runaway slaves who sought refuge in the goddess's Aventine sanctuary in Rome were called ...
... slaves under the auspices of the goddess.29 The vast majority of the 106 manu- missions that survive from Chaeronea ... slave to free . We may speculate that the first such manumission dedication to Artemis Eileithyia in Chaeronea was a ...
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CRITICAL | 3 |
Sources and Methodology | 17 |
THE SCANDAL OF WOMENS RITUAL | 29 |
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