ISBN:
9781134780525
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (262 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dillon, Matthew Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
DDC:
305.40938
Keywords:
Rites and ceremonies - Greece - History
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and spelling -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Objects and offerings -- 1 The forgotten things: Women, rituals, and community in Western Sicily (eighth-sixth centuries BCE) -- 2 Materiality and ritual competence: Insights from women's prayer typology in Homer -- 3 Power through textiles: Women as ritual performers in ancient Greece -- 4 Silent attendants: Terracotta statues and death rituals in Canosa -- PART II Authority and transmission -- 5 Shared meters and meanings: Delphic oracles and women's lament -- 6 Priestess and polis in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris -- 7 Owners of their own bodies: Women's magical knowledge and reproduction in Greek inscriptions -- PART III Control and resistance -- 8 Bitter constraint? Penelope's web and "season due" -- 9 Women's ritual competence and domestic dough: Celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian rites in ancient Attica -- 10 Inhabiting/subverting the norms: Women's ritual agency in the Greek West -- PART IV Denial and contestation -- 11 Women's ritual competence and a self-inscribing prophet at Rome -- 12 "A devotee and a champion": Reinterpreting the female "victims" of magic in early Christian texts -- 13 "What the women know": Plutarch and Pausanias on female ritual competence -- Index.
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