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Author Thompson, Lindsay J.

Title The Role of the Vestal Virgins in Roman Civic Religion : a Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages)
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Contents THE ROLE OF THE VESTAL VIRGINS IN ROMAN CIVIC RELIGION: A Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter One -- Interpreting Culture; Chapter Two -- Roman Civic Religion; Chapter Three -- Roman Myth and Ritual; Chapter Four -- Roman Virginity and the Vestal Cult; Chapter Five -- Vestal Mythology; Chapter Six -- The Vestal Ritual Tradition; Chapter Seven -- Interpreting Vestal Virginity; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index.
Summary This study introduces a question, somewhat disregarded or discounted in recent years, regarding the link between the Vestals and early Christian consecrated virgins. In a political interpretation of the ancient Roman virginity cult, this work demonstrates that female virginity was understood by both Christian and non-Christian Romans as a symbolic analogue of the securely intact body politic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Rome -- Religion.
Rome (Empire)
Religion.
Vestal virgins.
Vestal virgins.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Thompson, Lindsay J. Role of the Vestal Virgins in Roman Civic Religion : A Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773447653
ISBN 9780773430143
0773430148
9780773447653
0773447652