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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
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Contents: 1. Introduction, Deities and their Worshippers, 2. The Gamos of Hera: Myth and Ritual, Isabelle Clark, 3. Domesticating Artemis, Susan Cole, Objects of Worship, 4. Marriage and the Maiden: Narratives on the Parthenon, Sue Blundell, 5. Born Old or Never Young? Femininity, Childhood and the Goddesses of Ancient Greece, Lesley Beaumont, 6. The Nature of Heroines, Emily Kearns, Ritual and Gender, 7. Death Becomes Her: Gender and Athenian Death Ritual, Karen Stears, 8. In the Mirror of Dionysus, Richard Seaford, Sources and Interpreters, 9. Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics and Mysteries, Nick Lowe
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The Lucky Bird
Margaret Williamson
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The World of Bamboo
Margaret Williamson
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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 the 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. The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece is a lively and colourful exploration of the ways in which religion and ritual reveal women's importance in the Greek polis, showing how ideologies about female roles and behaviour were both endorsed and challenged in the realm of the sacred.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
She lived on the island of Lesbos around 600 B.C.E. She composed
lyric poetry, only fragments of which survive. And she was--and
is--the most highly regarded woman poet of Greek and Roman
antiquity. Little more than this can be said with certainty about
Sappho, and yet a great deal more is said. Her life, so little
known, is the stuff of legends; her poetry, the source of endless
speculation. This book is a search for Sappho through the poetry
she wrote, the culture she inhabited, and the myths that have risen
around her. It is an expert and thoroughly engaging introduction to
one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of
antiquity.Margaret Williamson conducts us through ancient
representations of Sappho, from vase paintings to appearances in
Ovid, and traces the route by which her work has reached us, shaped
along the way by excavators, editors, and interpreters. She goes
back to the poet's world and time to explore perennial questions
about Sappho: How could a woman have access to the public medium of
song? What was the place of female sexuality in the public and
religious symbolism of Greek culture? What is the sexual meaning of
her poems? Williamson follows with a close look at the poems
themselves, Sappho's "immortal daughters." Her book offers the
clearest picture yet of a woman whose place in the history of
Western culture has been at once assured and mysterious.
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