Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world : a sourcebook / Ross Shepard Kraemer.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 487 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Revised edition of: Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics. c1998.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE: Observances, Rituals, and Festivals; 1. Why Women Are Compelled to Worship Dionysos: EURIPIDES Bacchae 23-42; 2. The Rites of the First Bacchic Worshipers: EURIPIDES Bacchae 677-768; 3. Women Worshipers of a Dionysian Deity, Sabos: DEMOSTHENES On the Crown 259-60; 4. Rituals for Brides and Pregnant Women in the Worship of Artemis: LSCG Suppl. 115; 5. Objects Dedicated to Artemis Brauronia IG II[sup(2)] 1514; 6. Women Participants at a Festival of Adonis: THEOCRITUS Idyll 15, 95-149; 7. Ritual Regulations in a Dionysiac Thiasos: LSAM 48.
Summary This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. It collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- Religious life -- Rome -- History -- Sources.
Rome -- Religion -- Sources.
Rome (Empire)
Religion.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Women -- Religious life -- Greece -- History -- Sources.
Women -- Religious life.
Greece.
History.
Greece -- Religion -- Sources.
Indexed Term gresk-romersk
religion
kvinner
antikken
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1948-
Added Title Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics.
Other Form: Print version: Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195170652 0195142780 (DLC) 2003069777 (OCoLC)53993041
ISBN 1423761790 (electronic book)
9781423761792 (electronic book)
1433700964
9781433700965
9780195170658 (Cloth)
0195170652 (Cloth)
9780195142785 (Paper)
0195142780 (Paper)
1280560096
9781280560095
9780199725830
0199725837
0195192780 (paper ; alkaline paper)