Rome's vestal virgins
Subtitle: a study of Rome's vestal priestesses in the late Republic and Early Empire
By: Robin Lorsch Wildfang.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Vestal virgins; Women and religion -- Rome; Rome -- Religion
Description: This is an exploration of the function of the Vestal Virgins in the changing Roman world, exposed to new and different cultures through the expansion of the Roman Empire, provides a new and penetrating investigation of a cult which was at the very centre of ancient Roman religion.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Within the Aedes vestae; title: The vestals in public; title: Vestal initiation : the rite of Captio; title: The vestals' virginity; title: The vestals' legal and financial position; title: The vestals in the Romans' history; title: The vestals in Roman history.