Description |
1 online resource (x, 436 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-401) and index. |
Contents |
pt. 1 Public religious roles for girls and women -- 1. Women as dedicators -- 2. Public religious roles of girls and adolescent women in Athens -- 3. Women priests -- pt. 2. Segregated and ecstatic religious rites -- 4. Women-only festivals -- 5. Women at the margins of Greek religion -- 6. Prostitutes, foreign women and the gods -- pt. 3. Sacrificial and domestic rituals -- 7. From adolescent girl to woman, wife and mother -- 8. Women, sacrifice and impurity -- 9. Women and the corpse : mourning rituals. |
Summary |
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most importnat religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women and religion -- Greece -- History.
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Women and religion. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Dillon, Matthew, 1963- Girls and women in classical Greek religion. London ; New York : Routledge, 2002 0415202728 (DLC) 2001019956 (OCoLC)46792688 |
ISBN |
0203621328 (electronic book) |
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9780203621325 (electronic book) |
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0415202728 |
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9780415202725 |
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6610021376 |
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9786610021376 |
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0415319161 (paperback) |
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9780415319164 |
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9781134365098 (e-book: PDF) |
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1134365098 |
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9781134365043 (e-book: Mobi) |
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1134365047 |
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9781134365081 (e-book: ePub) |
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113436508X |
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