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      Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean
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      Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean book

      Edited ByMatthew Dillon, Esther Eidinow, Lisa Maurizio
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 15 October 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546506
      Pages 262
      eBook ISBN 9781315546506
      Subjects Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Dillon, M., Eidinow, E., & Maurizio, L. (Eds.). (2016). Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546506

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |8 pages

      Introduction

      ByESTHER EIDINOW, LISA MAURIZIO, MATTHEW DILLON

      part |2 pages

      PART I Objects and offerings

      chapter 1|21 pages

      The forgotten things: Women, rituals, and community in Western Sicily (eighth–sixth centuries BCE )

      ByMERITXELL FERRER

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Materiality and ritual competence: Insights from women’s prayer typology in Homer

      ByANDROMACHE KARANIKA

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Power through textiles: Women as ritual performers in ancient Greece

      ByCECILIE BRØNS

      chapter 4|30 pages

      Silent attendants: Terracotta statues and death rituals in Canosa

      ByTIZIANA D’ANGELO AND MAYA MURATOV

      part |2 pages

      PART II Authority and transmission

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Shared meters and meanings: Delphic oracles and women’s lament

      ByLISA MAURIZIO

      chapter 6|16 pages

      Priestess and polis in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris

      ByLAURA MCCLURE

      chapter 7|18 pages

      Owners of their own bodies: Women’s magical knowledge and reproduction in Greek inscriptions

      ByIRENE SALVO

      part |2 pages

      PART III Control and resistance

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Bitter constraint? Penelope’s web and “season due”

      ByLAURIE O’HIGGINS

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Women’s ritual competence and domestic dough: Celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian rites in ancient Attica

      ByMATTHEW DILLON

      chapter 10|15 pages

      Inhabiting/subverting the norms: Women’s ritual agency in the Greek West

      ByBONNIE MACLACHLAN

      part |2 pages

      PART IV Denial and contestation

      chapter 11|14 pages

      Women’s ritual competence and a self-inscribing prophet at Rome

      ByJ. BERT LOTT

      chapter 12|16 pages

      “A devotee and a champion”: Reinterpreting the female “victims” of magic in early Christian texts

      ByESTHER EIDINOW

      chapter 13|12 pages

      “What the women know”: Plutarch and Pausanias on female ritual competence

      ByDEBORAH LYONS
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