Finding Persephone
Subtitle: women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean
By: edited by Maryline Parca and Angeliki Tzanetou.
Contributors: Parca, Maryline G.; Tzanetou, Angeliki.
Series: Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253349545; 9780253219381
Subjects: Women -- Religious life; Rites and ceremonies; Spiritual life; Feminism -- Religious aspects; Women -- Mediterranean Region -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ritual and gender : critical perspectives / Angeliki Tzanetou; title: Sources and methodology; title: The scandal of women's ritual / Deborah Lyons; title: Gender and agency; title: Looking for the images : representations of girls' rituals in ancient Athens / Jenifer Neils; title: Improvising on the Athenian stage : women's ritual practice in drama / Barbara Goff; title: Sanctissima femina : social categorization and women's religious experience in the Roman Republic / Celia E. Schultz; title: Threat and hope : women's rituals and Civil War in Roman epic / Vassiliki Panoussi; title: Performance; title: Folk songs as ritual acts : the case of work-songs / Andromache Karanika; title: The rise of the demon womb in Greco-Roman antiquity / Christopher A. Faraone; title: Thesmophoria and eleusinian mysteries: the fascination of women's secret ritual / Eva Stehle; title: Appropriations and adaptations; title: Worshipping demeter in ptolemaic and Roman Egypt / Maryline Parca; title: Nuptiarum sollemnia girls' transition to marriage in the Roman jurists / Lauren  Caldwell; title: Maidens and manhood in the worship of Diana at Nemi / Eve D'Ambra; title: Male improvisation in the "women's cult" of Eileithyia on Paros / David D. Leitao; title: Early Christian antipathy toward the Greek "women gods" / Kathy L. Gaca.