Finding Persephone : women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Parca, Maryline G., Tzanetou, Angeliki
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Series:Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture.
Subjects:
Women > Religious life.
Rites and ceremonies.
Spiritual life.
Feminism > Religious aspects.
Women > Mediterranean Region > History.
Physical Description:xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.