Brides, mourners, Bacchae : women's rituals in Roman literature /

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Powerful female characters pervade both Greek and Latin literature, even if their presence is largely dictated by the narratives of men. Feminist approaches to the study of women in Greek literature have helped illustrate the importance of their religious and ritual roles in public life--Latin liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Panoussi, Vassiliki, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Temas:
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.
Women in literature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Epithalamia > Rome > History and criticism.
Mourning customs in literature.
Bacchantes in literature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Littérature latine > Histoire et critique.
Épithalames > Rome > Histoire et critique.
Deuil > Coutumes, dans la littérature.
Bacchantes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Bacchantes in literature
Epithalamia
Latin literature
Mourning customs in literature
Women in literature
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Brides
  • The Roman wedding
  • Sexuality and ritual: Catullus' wedding poems
  • Isis at a wedding: gender, ethnicity, and Roman identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9
  • Wartime weddings: Lucan's Civil war and Seneca's Trojan women
  • Quartilla's priapic weddings in Petronius' Satyrica: female power and male impotence
  • Mourners
  • Roman burial rites
  • Mourning Orpheus: poetry and lament in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11
  • A new hope: burying the war dead in Statius' Thebaid 12
  • Bacchae
  • Bacchic rites in Greece and Rome
  • Roman Bacchae: Dionysiac mysteries, masculinity, and the state in Livy's Bacchanalian narrative
  • Philomela's Bacchic justice: ritual resistance and abusive authority in Metamorphoses 6
  • Hypsipyle's Bacchic pietas: ritual, exemplarity, and gender in Valerius and Statius
  • Women-only rituals
  • Women-only rituals in Rome
  • Spinning Hercules: gender, religion, and geography in Propertius 4.9
  • Hercules and the founding mothers: Mater Matuta and the matralia in Ovid's Fasti 6
  • Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in Statius' Achilleid
  • Epilogue: Tacita's rites and the story of Lara in Ovid's Fasti 2.

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