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Women's ritual competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean / edited by Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, and Lisa Maurizio.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge monographs in classical studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--History--To 500.
- Women.
- History.
- Civilization, Greco-Roman.
- Women--Greece--Social life and customs.
- Women--Rome--Social life and customs.
- Rites and ceremonies--Greece--History.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies--Rome--History.
- Women--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Greece--History.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part I Objects and offerings 9
- 1 The forgotten things: Women, rituals, and community in Western Sicily (eighth-sixth centuries BCE) / Meritxell Ferrer Ferrer, Meritxell 11
- 2 Materiality and ritual competence: Insights from women's prayer typology in Homer / Andromache Karanika Karanika, Andromache 32
- 3 Power through textiles: Women as ritual performers in ancient Greece / Cecille Brøns Brøns, Cecille 46
- 4 Silent attendants: Terracotta statues and death rituals in Canosa / Tiziana D'Angelo D'Angelo, Tiziana, Maya Muratov Muratov, Maya 65
- Part II Authority and transmission 95
- 5 Shared meters and meanings: Delphic oracles and women's lament / Lisa Malirizio Malirizio, Lisa 97
- 6 Priestess and polis in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris / Laura McClure McClure, Laura 115
- 7 Owners of their own bodies: Women's magical knowledge and reproduction in Greek inscriptions / Irene Salvo Salvo, Irene 131
- Part III Control and resistance 149
- 8 Bitter constraint? Penelope's web and "season due" / Laurie O'Higgins O'Higgins, Laurie 151
- 9 Women's ritual competence and domestic dough: Celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian rites in ancient Attica / Matthew Dillon Dillon, Matthew 165
- 10 Inhabiting/subverting the norms: Women's ritual agency in the Greek West / Bonnie Maclachlan Maclachlan, Bonnie 182
- Part IV Denial and contestation 197
- 11 Women's ritual competence and a self-inscribing prophet at Rome / J. Bert Lott Lott, J. Bert 199
- 12 "A devotee and a champion": Reinterpreting the female "victims" of magic in early Christian texts / Esther Bidinow Bidinow, Esther 213
- 13 "What the women know": Plutarch and Pausanias on female ritual competence / Deborah Lyons Lyons, Deborah 229.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472478900
- 1472478908
- OCLC:
- 964650296
- Publisher Number:
- 99970227951
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