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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (Paperback)
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Women's Ritual Competence in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (Paperback)
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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.
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