Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece
Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece
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Abstract
What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture? By offering answers to these questions, this study aims to recover and reconstruct an important dimension of the lived experience of ancient Greek women. A comprehensive investigation of the ritual roles of women in ancient Greece, it draws on a wide range of evidence from across the Greek world–including literary and historical texts, inscriptions, and vase paintings–to assemble a portrait of women as religious and cultural agents, despite the ideals of seclusion within the home and exclusion from public arenas that we know restricted their lives. As the author builds a picture of the extent and diversity of women's ritual activity, she shows that women were entrusted with some of the most important processes by which the community guaranteed its welfare. She examines the ways in which women's ritual activity addressed issues of sexuality and civic participation, showing that ritual could offer women genuinely alternative roles and identities, even while it worked to produce wives and mothers who functioned well in this male-dominated society. Moving to more speculative analysis, the author discusses the possibility of a women's subculture focused on ritual, and investigates the significance of ritual in women's poetry and in vase paintings that depict women. She also includes a substantial exploration of the representation of women as ritual agents in fifth-century Athenian drama.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Barbara Goff
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Working Toward a Material Presence
Barbara Goff
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Ritual Management of Desire: The Reproduction of Sexuality
Barbara Goff
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In and Out of the City: Imaginary Citizens
Barbara Goff
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Representing Women: Ritual as a Cultural Resource
Barbara Goff
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Women Represented: Ritual in Drama
Barbara Goff
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End Matter
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