The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece,9780415126625

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415126625
ISBN10: 0415126622
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-05-11
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

In Classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual. The public symbolism of religion included powerful figures like Hera, Artemis and Athene; female worshippers often breached the boundary between public and private space; and both men and women negotiated gendered identities through their performance of ritual. This volume is a lively and colorful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women's importance in the Greekpolis, showing how ideologies about female roles and behavior were both endorsed and challenged in the realm of the sacred.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
vii(2)
List of contributors ix
1 Introduction
1(10)
PART I Deities and their worshippers 11(34)
2 The gamos of Hera: myth and ritual
13(14)
ISABELLE CLARK
3 Domesticating Artemis
27(18)
SUSAN GUETTEL COLE
PART II Objects of worship 45(66)
4 Marriage and the maiden: narratives on the Parthenon
47(24)
SUE BLUNDELL
5 Born old or never young? Femininity, childhood and the goddesses of ancient Greece
71(25)
LESLEY BEAUMONT
6 The nature of heroines
96(15)
EMILY KEARNS
PART III Ritual and gender 111(36)
7 Death becomes her: gender and Athenian death ritual
113(15)
KAREN STEARS
8 In the mirror of Dionysos
128(19)
RICHARD SEAFORD
PART IV Sources and interpreters 147(27)
9 Thesmophoria and Haloa: myth, physics and mysteries
149(25)
Bibliography 174(13)
Index 187

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