Goff, Barbara
Citizen Bacchae

Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece.

Barbara Goff 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, she discusses the possibility of a women's subculture focused on ritual and investigates the significance of ritual in women's poetry and vase-paintings that depict women. She also includes a substantial exploration of the representation of women as ritual agents in fifth-century Athenian drama. XII,400 Seiten mit 12 Abb., gebunden (The Joan Palevsky Book Imprint in Classical Literature/University of California Press 2004) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Stempel auf Kopfschnitt. Der Stempel weist den Band als Prüfexemplar aus, das auf dem amerikanischen Markt nicht zum Wiederverkauf angeboten werden darf/clean text pages, minor traces of use, stamp on the cut. The stamp labels this volume as a test copy that must not be sold within the US