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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Finding Persephone. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007 (OCoLC)608162653 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maryline G Parca; Angeliki Tzanetou |
| ISBN: | 9780253349545 0253349540 9780253219381 0253219388 |
| OCLC Number: | 122291702 |
| Description: | xiv, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou. |
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"As the excellent introduction makes clear, there are good reasons why the study of women and religion is an exciting topic at this time." H. Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
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