The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 March 1998
- ISBN 9780415126625
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The papers collected in this volume present a systematic and comprehensive survey of women's role in the religion of the Ancient Greek polis.
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In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of the feminine in Greek culture, showing how out of sight was not out of mind. The contributors adopt perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, such as archaeology, art history, psychology and anthropology, in order to investigate various aspects of religion and cult. They include the part played by women in death ritual, the role of heroines, and the fact that goddesses had no childhood, at the same time posing questions about how we know what rituals meant to their participants.
The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece is a lively and colourful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women's importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles and behaviour were both endorsed and challenged in the realm of the sacred.
'The book is an interesting contribution to gender studies in the area of religious research. The reader ... will find well represented papers understandable also for non-specialists.' - Numen
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction,, Deities and their Worshippers,, 2. The Gamos of Hera: Myth and Ritual, Isabelle Clark,, 3. Domesticating Artemis, Susan Cole,, Objects of Worship,, 4. Marriage and the Maiden: Narratives on the Parthenon, Sue Blundell,, 5. Born Old or Never Young? Femininity, Childhood and the Goddesses of Ancient Greece, Lesley Beaumont,, 6. The Nature of Heroines, Emily Kearns, Ritual and Gender,, 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual, Karen Stears,, 8. In the Mirror of Dionysus, Richard Seaford,, Sources and Interpreters,, 9. Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics and Mysteries, Nick Lowe
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