Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world [[electronic resource] ] : a sourcebook / / Ross Shepard Kraemer

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (516 p.)
• Disciplina: 200/.82/093
• Soggetto topico: Women - Religious life - Rome - History; Women - Religious life - Greece - History
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Religion Sources; Greece Religion Sources
• Altri autori: KraemerRoss Shepard <1948->
• Note generali: Rev. ed. of: Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics. c1998.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 II[sup(2)] 1514; 6. Women Participants at a Festival of Adonis: THEOCRITUS Idyll 15, 95-149; 7. Ritual Regulations in a Dionysiac Thiasos: LSAM 48 ; 8. Epitaph of Alcmeonis, a Priestess of Dionysos Henrichs: HSCP 82 (1978): 1489. 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; 12. Women's Rites of Dionysos in Greek Cities: DIODORUS OF SICILY Library 4.3.2-5; 13. 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 2.102-416. Excerpts from Plutarch on Greek and Roman Women's Religions; 17. Excerpts from the Travel Writer Pausanias on Greek Women's Religions; 18. The Religious Activities of Roman Women as Viewed by a Skeptical Satirist: JUVENALl Satire 6; 19. Women (and Men) in a Procession to Isis: APULEIUS Metamorphoses 11.9-10; 20. The Deeds of the Saga Meroe: APULEIUS Metamorphoses 1.7-10; 21. Photis Reveals the Nefarious Deeds of Her Mistress, Pamphile: APULEIUS Metamorphoses 3.15-18 ; 22. A Grieving Mother Resurrects and Interrogates the Corpse of Her Son Using "Magic Arts": HELIODORUS An Ethiopian Story 6.13-1523. Callirhoe Entreats Aphrodite at Her Shrines and Temple: CHARITON Chareas and Callirhoe 2.2, 7.5, 8.8; 24. Festivals and Sacrifices at the Birth of Callirhoe's Son: CHARITON Chareas and Callirhoe 3.7-9; 25. Prospective Brides and Grooms at a Festival of Artemis of Ephesos: XENOPHON OF EPHESOS Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes 1.2; 26. Anthia Entreats Isis and Apis: XENOPHON OF EPHESOS Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes 4.3, 5.4 ; 27. Offerings and Festivals for Helios at Rhodes: XENOPHON OF EPHESOS Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes 5.10-1328. Anthia and Habrocomes, Reunited, at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesos: XENOPHON OF EPHESOS Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes 5.15; 29. Leucippe Takes Refuge in a Sanctuary of Artemis: ACHILLES TATIUS Leucippe and Clitophon 7.13; 30. Chloe and Daphnis Worship the Nymphs: LONGUS Daphnis and Chloe 2.2, 4.39; 31. Devotions at a Private Feast in a Temple of Hermes ; 32. A Woman Whose Acceptance of Ascetic Christianity Causes Her Husband to Bring Charges Against Her and Her Christian Teachers: JUSTIN MARTYR Second Apology 2
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics. It collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world
• ISBN: 0-19-774196-7; 1-280-56009-6; 1-4237-6179-0; 0-19-972583-7; 1-4337-0096-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812442403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II