Finding Persephone : women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Parca, Maryline G.
Tzanetou, Angeliki |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiv, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture
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| ISBN: | 0-253-21938-8 0-253-34954-0 978-0-253-21938-1 9780253349545 |
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 10 Datensätze |
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Table of contents only |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Ritual and gender : critical perspectives / Angeliki Tzanetou
- Sources and methodology
- The scandal of women's ritual / Deborah Lyons
- Gender and agency
- Looking for the images : representations of girls' rituals in ancient Athens / Jenifer Neils
- Improvising on the Athenian stage : women's ritual practice in drama / Barbara Goff
- Sanctissima femina : social categorization and women's religious experience in the Roman Republic / Celia E. Schultz
- Threat and hope : women's rituals and Civil War in Roman epic / Vassiliki Panoussi
- Performance
- Folk songs as ritual acts : the case of work-songs / Andromache Karanika
- The rise of the demon womb in Greco-Roman antiquity / Christopher A. Faraone
- Thesmophoria and eleusinian mysteries: the fascination of women's secret ritual / Eva Stehle
- Appropriations and adaptations
- Worshipping demeter in ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Maryline Parca
- Nuptiarum sollemnia? : girls' transition to marriage in the Roman jurists / Lauren Caldwell
- Maidens and manhood in the worship of Diana at Nemi / Eve D'Ambra
- Male improvisation in the "women's cult" of Eileithyia on Paros / David D. Leitao
- Early Christian antipathy toward the Greek "women gods" / Kathy L. Gaca.
