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The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

Williamson**nfa***, Margaret
Blundell, Sue
Williamson, Margaret

Paperback

Ancient GreeceGeneral ChristianityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415126630
ISBN13: 9780415126632
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 19 1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the often paradoxical centrality of the feminine in Greek culture, showing how out of sight was not out of mind. The contributors adopt perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, such as archaeology, art history, psychology and anthropology, in order to investigate various aspects of religion and cult. They include the part played by women in death ritual, the role of heroines, and the fact that goddesses had no childhood, at the same time posing questions about how we know what rituals meant to their participants.

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