Girls and women in classical Greek religion / Matthew Dillon.

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Main Author: Dillon, Matthew, 1963-
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002, ©2001.
Subjects:
Women and religion > Greece > History.
Greece > Religion.
Physical Description:x, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1 Public religious roles for girls and women
  • 1. Women as dedicators
  • 2. The public religious roles of girls and adolescent women in Athens
  • 3. Women priests
  • pt. 2. Segregated and ecstatic religious rites
  • 4. Women-only festivals
  • 5. Women at the margins of Greek religion
  • 6. Prostitutes, foreign women and the gods
  • pt. 3. Sacrificial and domestic rituals
  • 7. From adolescent girl to woman, wife and mother
  • 8. Women, sacrifice and impurity
  • 9. Women and the corpse : mourning rituals.