Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome

ISBN-13: 9781138481626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str.

Abbe Lind Walker

Opis

This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood.

Recenzje

"[This volume] combines the study of two discrete historical periods and cultures – ancient Greece and early Christian Rome – and will be of interest to scholars seeking to appreciate better the connections often drawn between virgins and brides in the context of the ancient world ... an engaging monograph."

- Peta Greenfield, The Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Virgin suicides  1. Loving death  2. Protecting the virgin bride  Part I Conclusion  Part II: Parents of the bride  3. Hades takes a bride  4. Recruiting brides of Christ  Part II Conclusion  Epilogue

O autorze

Abbe Lind Walker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Connecticut College, USA. Her research unites multiple strands of interest, including gender in antiquity, religions in the ancient Mediterranean, and the social and cultural history of classical Greece and late antique Rome. This is her first book.