Finding Persephone : women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean

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Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1. Introduction 1. Ritual and Gender: Critical Perspectives Angeliki Tzanetou Part 2. Sources and Methodology 2. The Scandal of Ritual Deborah Lyons Part 3. Gender and Agency 3. Looking for the Images: Representations of Girls' Rituals in Ancient Athens Jenifer Neils 4. Improvising on the Athenian Stage: Ritual Practice in Drama Barbara Goff 5. Sanctissima femina: Social Categorization and Religious Experience in the Roman Republic Celia E. Schultz 6. Threat and Hope: Rituals and Civil War in Roman Epic Vassiliki Panoussi Part 4. Performance 7. Folk Songs as Ritual Acts: The Case of Work-Songs Andromache Karanika 8. The Rise of the Demon Womb in Greco-Roman Antiquity Christopher A. Faraone 9. Thesmophoria and Eleusinian Mysteries: The Fascination of Secret Ritual Eva Stehle Part 5. Appropriations and Adaptations 10. Worshipping Demeter in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Maryline Parca 11. Nuptiarum Sollemnia? Girls' Transition to Marriage in the Roman Jurists Lauren Caldwell 12. Maidens and Manhood in the Worship of Diana at Nemi Eve D'Ambra 13. Male Improvisation in the Women's Cult of Eileithyia on Paros David D. Leitao 14. Early Christian Antipathy toward the Greek Women Gods Kathy L. Gaca Bibliography Contributors Index

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