Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780367880729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Matthew Dillon; Esther Eidinow; Lisa Maurizio

Opis

Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women’s rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different ap

Recenzje

"This book makes a significant contribution to both gender studies and studies on ancient Mediterranean religions ... this is a much-needed volume which opens the field to viewing women’s agency in ancient religions in a variety of different ways. Both scholars and students will find much of value in this edited collection."

- Jennifer Martinez Morales, Monmouth College, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

 

Introduction

Matthew P. Dillon, Esther Eidinow, and Lisa Maurizio

 

I. OBJECTS AND OFFERINGS

1. The Forgotten Things: Women, Rituals and Community in Western Sicily (8^th–6^th Centuries BCE) - Meritxell Ferrer











2. Materiality and Ritual Competence: Insights from Women’s Prayer Typology in Homer - Andromache Karanika











3. Power through Textiles: Women as Ritual Performers in Ancient Greece - Cecilie Brøns











4. Silent Mourners: Terracotta Statues and Death Rituals in Canosa - Tiziana D’Angelo and Maya Muratov










 





II. AUTHORITY AND TRANSMISSION









5. Shared Meters and Meanings: Delphic Oracles and Women’s Lament - Lisa Maurizio











6. Priestess and Polis in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris - Laura McClure











7. Owners of Their Own Bodies: Women’s Magical Knowledge and Reproduction in Greek Inscriptions - Irene Salvo










 





III. CONTROL AND RESISTANCE









8. Bitter Constraint? Penelope’s Web, and "Season Due" - Laurie O’Higgins











9. Women’s Ritual Competence and Domestic Dough: Celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian Rites in Ancient Attika - Matthew P. Dillon











10. Inhabiting/Subverting the Norms: Women's Ritual Agency in the Greek West - Bonnie MacLachlan










 





IV. DENIAL AND CONTESTATION









11. Women’s Ritual Competence and a Self-Inscribing Prophet at Rome - J. Bert Lott











12. "A Devotee and a Champion": Re-interpreting the Female "Victims" of Magic in Early Christian Texts - Esther Eidinow











13. "What

O autorze

Matt Dillon is an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the School of Humanities, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He has written several articles and a book on women’s religion in ancient Greece, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion (2002). He is interested in all ancient religions, and in Greek society.

Esther Eidinow is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham, UK. She has particular interest in ancient Greek religion and magic, and her publications include Oracles, Curses, and Risk among the Ancient Greeks (2007), Luck, Fate and Fortune: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), and Envy, Poison and Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens (2015).

Lisa Maurizio is an Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies at Bates College, Maine, USA. She is interested in interplay between gender, oral poetry, and Greek religion, and has published articles on Delphic divination as well as Classical Mythology in Context (2015).