Girls and women in classical Greek religion /

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It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most importnat religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dillon, Matthew, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Subjects:
Women and religion > Greece > History.
Femmes et religion > Grèce > Histoire.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
Women and religion.
Frau
Mädchen
Religion
Vrouwen.
Meisjes.
Godsdienst.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece.
Griechenland > Altertum
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1 Public religious roles for girls and women
  • 1. Women as dedicators
  • 2. The public religious roles of girls and adolescent women in Athens
  • 3. Women priests
  • pt. 2. Segregated and ecstatic religious rites
  • 4. Women-only festivals
  • 5. Women at the margins of Greek religion
  • 6. Prostitutes, foreign women and the gods
  • pt. 3. Sacrificial and domestic rituals
  • 7. From adolescent girl to woman, wife and mother
  • 8. Women, sacrifice and impurity
  • 9. Women and the corpse : mourning rituals.

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