Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World : a Sourcebook.
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book originally published in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. The book is a collection of translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth c...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; ONE Observances, Rituals, and Festivals; 1. Why Women Are Compelled to Worship Dionysos EURIPIDES Bacchae 23-42; 2. The Rites of the First Bacchic Worshipers EURIPIDES Bacchae 677-768; 3. Women Worshipers of a Dionysian Deity, Sabos DEMOSTHENES On the Crown 259-60; 4. Rituals for Brides and Pregnant Women in the Worship of Artemis LSCG Suppl. 115; 5. Objects Dedicated to Artemis Brauronia IG II2 1514; 6. Women Participants at a Festival of Adonis THEOCRITUS Idyll 15, 95-149.
- 7. Ritual Regulations in a Dionysiac Thiasos LSAM 488. Epitaph of Alcmeonis, a Priestess of Dionysos Henrichs HSCP 82 (1978): 148; 9. The Establishment of Dionysiac Rites in Magnesia I. Magn. 215a.24-40; 10. Ritual Equipment for a Women's Festival in Hellenistic Egypt P. Hib. 54; 11. Three Excerpts from Ovid on the Rites of Roman Women; 11A. Roman Matrons Who Celebrate the Matralia (A Festival to the Goddess, Mother Matuta) OVID Fasti 6.473-568; 11B. Roman Matrons Who Wash the Statue of Venus on April 1 OVID Fasti 4.133-62; 11C. The Ritual Practices of an Old Woman OVID Fasti 2.571-82.
- 12. Women's Rites of Dionysos in Greek Cities DIODORUS OF SICILY Library 4.3.2-513. Women Members of a Monastic Jewish Community Outside Alexandria PHILO On the Contemplative Life 2, 32-33, 65-69, 83-85, 87-89; 14. (Jewish?) Women in Alexandrian Public Life PHILO The Special Laws 3.169-75; 15. The Women's Court of the Jerusalem Temple JOSEPHUS The Jewish War 5.198-200, Against Apion 2.102-4; 16. Excerpts from Plutarch on Greek and Roman Women's Religions; 16A. Devotees of Dionysos Protected by Women from the Town of Amphissa On the Bravery of Women 13 (Moralia 249).
- 16B. The Dionysiac Proclivities of Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great Life of Alexander 2.1-516C. How Women's Bacchic Frenzy Explains an Epithet of the God (Bacchus) Roman Questions 104 (Moralia 288-89); 16D. Why Roman Matrons Founded a Temple to the Goddess Carmenta Roman Questions 56 (Moralia 278); 16E. Why Women Use Milk but Not Wine in Offerings to Rumina Roman Questions 57 (Moralia 278); 16F. Gender Distinctions in Sacrifices to Hercules Roman Questions 60 (Moralia 278); 16G. Why Seduced Vestal Virgins Are Buried Alive Roman Questions 96 (Moralia 286-87).
- 16H. Why Roman Women Wash Their Heads on the Ides of August Roman Questions 100 (Moralia 287)17. Excerpts from the Travel Writer Pausanias on Greek Women's Religions; 17A. The Public and Secret Rites to Demeter Performed by Elder Women in Corinth Description of Greece 2 (Corinth) 35.6-8; 17B. The Athletic Contests for Women in Honor of Hera at Elis Description of Greece 5 (Elis 1) 16.2-8; 17C. Women's Worship of Eileithyia and Sosipolis at Elis Description of Greece 5 (Elis 1) 20.2-3; 17D. Women's Rites to Demeter at Achaia Description of Greece 7 (Achaia) 27.9-10.