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Women's ritual competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
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- Creator
- edited by Matthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, and Lisa Maurizio
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781472478900, 1472478908, 9781315546506
- OCLC
- ocn964650296
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 1. Objects and offerings -- pt. 2. Authority and transmission -- pt. 3. Control and resistance -- pt. 4. Denial and contestation
- Introduction / Matthew P. Dillon, Esther Eidinow, and Lisa Maurizio -- Objects and Offerings -- The forgotten things : women, rituals and community in Western Sicily (eighth-sixth centuries BCE) / Meritxell Ferrer -- Materiality and ritual competence : insights from women's prayer typology in Homer / Andromache Karanika -- Power through textiles: women as ritual performers in Ancient Greece / Cecilie Brøns -- Silent attendants: terracotta statues and death rituals in Canosa / Tiziana D'Angelo and Maya Muratov -- Authority and transmission -- Shared meters and meanings : Delphic oracles and women's lament / Lisa Maurizio -- Priestess and polis in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris / Laura McClure -- Owners of their own bodies : women's magical knowledge and reproduction in Greek inscriptions / Irene Salvo -- Control and resistance -- Bitter constraint? : Penelope's web and "season due" / Laurie O'Higgins -- Women's ritual competence and domestic dough : celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian rites in ancient Attika / Matthew P. Dillon -- Inhabiting/subverting the norms : women's ritual agency in the Greek west / Bonnie MacLachlan -- Denial and contestation -- Women's ritual competence and a self-inscribing prophet at Rome / J. Bert Lott -- "A devotee and a champion" : reinterpreting the female "victims" of magic in early Christian texts / Esther Eidinow -- "What the women know" : Plutarch and Pausanias on female ritual competence / Deborah Lyons