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Ancient Greece
ancient Mediterranean religion
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classical archaeology
Cult Statue
De Juliis
Dea Syria
Elegiac Verse
Epizephyrian Lokri
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female ritual agency
Fi Fth Century BCE
Fi Rst Millennium BCE
Fi Rst Person Pronoun
gender and power dynamics
Grave Assemblage
Greek religious practices
Mansfi Eld
material culture analysis
Nonritual Contexts
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Penelope's Web
Penelope’s Web
Ritual Competence
Sacrifi Ce
Special Agent Rituals
Terracotta Statues
Verse Oracles
Violate
Women's Laments
Women's Ritual
Women's Ritual Competence
women's ritual roles in antiquity
Women’s Laments
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781472478900
  • Weight: 660g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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 approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world as well as scholarship on religious and social history.

The contributors face a famously difficult task: ancient authors rarely recorded aspects of women’s lives, including their songs, prophecies, and prayers. Many of the objects women made and used in ritual were perishable and have not survived; certain kinds of ritual objects (lowly undecorated pots, for example) tend not even to be recorded in archaeological reports. However, the broad range of contributions in this volume demonstrates the multiplicity of materials that can be used as evidence – including inscriptions, textiles, ceramics, figurative art, and written sources – and the range of methodologies that can be used, from analysis of texts, images, and material evidence to cognitive and comparative approaches.
About
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).