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- catalog abstract ""This study aims to recover and reconstruct an important dimension of the lived experience of ancient Greek women. An 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 she builds a picture of the extent and diversity of women's ritual activity, Barbara Goff shows that they 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, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13239486.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This study aims to recover and reconstruct an important dimension of the lived experience of ancient Greek women. An 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 she builds a picture of the extent and diversity of women's ritual activity, Barbara Goff shows that they 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, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-391) and index.".
- catalog description "Working toward a material presence -- Ritual management of desire : the reproduction of sexuality -- In and out of the city: imaginary citizens -- Representing women : ritual as a cultural resource -- Women represented: ritual in drama.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 400 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Citizen Bacchae.".
- catalog identifier "0520239989 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9781417545131 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Citizen Bacchae.".
- catalog isPartOf "Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog relation "Citizen Bacchae.".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "880.9/355 21".
- catalog subject "Greek literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PA3015.W65 G65 2004".
- catalog subject "Religion and literature Greece.".
- catalog subject "Religion in literature.".
- catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies Greece.".
- catalog subject "Rites and ceremonies in literature.".
- catalog subject "Women Greece.".
- catalog subject "Women Religious life Greece.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Greece.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Working toward a material presence -- Ritual management of desire : the reproduction of sexuality -- In and out of the city: imaginary citizens -- Representing women : ritual as a cultural resource -- Women represented: ritual in drama.".
- catalog title "Citizen Bacchae : women's ritual practice in ancient Greece / Barbara Goff.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".