| Description |
1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The gamos of Hera: myth and ritual / Isabelle Clark -- Domesticating Artemis / Susan Guettel Cole -- Marriage and the maiden: narratives on the Parthenon / Sue Blundell -- Born old or never young? Femininity, childhood, and the goddesses of ancient Greece / Lesley Beaumont -- The nature of heroines / Emily Kearns -- Death becomes her: gender and Athenian death ritual / Karen Stears -- In the mirror of Dionysos / Richard Seaford -- Thesmophoria and Haloa: myth, physics, and mystery / N.J. Lowe |
| Summary |
The papers collected in this volume present a systematic and comprehensive survey of women's role in the religion of the Ancient Greek polis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-186) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 2, 2020) |
| Subject |
Women and religion -- Greece -- History
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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Religion
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Women and religion
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057127
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blundell, Sue, editor.
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Williamson, Margaret, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
0203981251 |
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9780203981252 |
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9780415126625 |
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0415126622 |
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9780415126632 |
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0415126630 |
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9786610267200 |
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6610267200 |
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1280267208 |
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9781280267208 |
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