Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean

著者名：Dillon, Matthew (EDT)/Eidinow, Esther (EDT)/Maurizio, Lisa (EDT)

Routledge（2016/10/14発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781472478900
• eISBN：9781134780594

Description

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

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Matthew P. Dillon, Esther Eidinow, and Lisa Maurizio

I. OBJECTS AND OFFERINGS

1. The Forgotten Things: Women, Rituals and Community in Western Sicily (8th–6th Centuries BCE) - Meritxell Ferrer
2. Materiality and Ritual Competence: Insights from Women’s Prayer Typology in Homer - Andromache Karanika
3. Power through Textiles: Women as Ritual Performers in Ancient Greece - Cecilie Brøns
4. Silent Mourners: Terracotta Statues and Death Rituals in Canosa - Tiziana D’Angelo and Maya Muratov

II. AUTHORITY AND TRANSMISSION

5. Shared Meters and Meanings: Delphic Oracles and Women’s Lament - Lisa Maurizio
6. Priestess and Polis in Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Tauris - Laura McClure
7. Owners of Their Own Bodies: Women’s Magical Knowledge and Reproduction in Greek Inscriptions - Irene Salvo

III. CONTROL AND RESISTANCE

8. Bitter Constraint? Penelope’s Web, and "Season Due" - Laurie O’Higgins
9. Women’s Ritual Competence and Domestic Dough: Celebrating the Thesmophoria, Haloa, and Dionysian Rites in Ancient Attika - Matthew P. Dillon
10. Inhabiting/Subverting the Norms: Women's Ritual Agency in the Greek West - Bonnie MacLachlan

IV. DENIAL AND CONTESTATION

11. Women’s Ritual Competence and a Self-Inscribing Prophet at Rome - J. Bert Lott
12. "A Devotee and a Champion": Re-interpreting the Female "Victims" of Magic in Early Christian Texts - Esther Eidinow
13. "What the Women Know": Plutarch and Pausanias on Female Ritual Competence - Deborah Lyons

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