Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ - The Virgin Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece Early Christian

Summary

This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood.

Product details

• Authors: Abbe Lind Walker, Abbe Lind (Connecticut College Walker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2020
• EAN: 9781138481626
• ISBN: 978-1-138-48162-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Christianity, History of Religion, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Church history, Eclectic & Esoteric Religions & Belief Systems, Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems