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Girls and women in classical Greek religion / Matthew Dillon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 436 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203621328
  • 9780203621325
  • 0415202728
  • 9780415202725
  • 6610021376
  • 9786610021376
  • 9781134365098
  • 1134365098
  • 9781134365043
  • 1134365047
  • 9781134365081
  • 113436508X
  • 1280021373
  • 9781280021374
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Girls and women in classical Greek religion.DDC classification:
  • 292.08/082 22
LOC classification:
  • BL795.W65 D55 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 11.15
  • BE 7252
  • BE 7302
  • LG 7100
  • NH 6850
  • 6,12
Online resources:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-401) and index.

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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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.

English.

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