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Informationen zum Autor Maryline Parca teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Franchetti Collection in Rome: Inscriptions and Sculptural Fragments. Angeliki Tzanetou teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published articles on women's rituals and politics in Greek drama. Klappentext Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred from participating in many civic arenas, women asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume reveal the central place of women in the religious and ritual practices of the societies of the ancient Mediterranean. Readers interested in religion, women's studies, and the ancient world will find a unique exploration of the nature and character of women's autonomy within the religious sphere and a full account of women's agency in the public domain. Zusammenfassung Reveals women's active role in religious life and rituals in the ancient world Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1. Introduction 1. Ritual and Gender: Critical PerspectivesAngeliki Tzanetou Part 2. Sources and Methodology 2. The Scandal of Women's RitualDeborah Lyons Part 3. Gender and Agency 3. Looking for the Images: Representations of Girls' Rituals in Ancient AthensJenifer Neils 4. Improvising on the Athenian Stage: Women's Ritual Practice in DramaBarbara Goff 5. Sanctissima femina: Social Categorization and Women's Religious Experience in the Roman RepublicCelia E. Schultz 6. Threat and Hope: Women's Rituals and Civil War in Roman EpicVassiliki Panoussi Part 4. Performance 7. Folk Songs as Ritual Acts: The Case of Work-SongsAndromache Karanika 8. The Rise of the Demon Womb in Greco-Roman AntiquityChristopher A. Faraone 9. Thesmophoria and Eleusinian Mysteries: The Fascination of Women's Secret RitualEva Stehle Part 5. Appropriations and Adaptations 10. Worshipping Demeter in Ptolemaic and Roman EgyptMaryline Parca 11. Nuptiarum Sollemnia? Girls' Transition to Marriage in the Roman JuristsLauren Caldwell 12. Maidens and Manhood in the Worship of Diana at NemiEve D'Ambra 13. Male Improvisation in the "Women's Cult" of Eileithyia on ParosDavid D. Leitao 14. Early Christian Antipathy toward the Greek "Women Gods"Kathy L. Gaca Bibliography Contributors Index ...
