- Description
- xvi, 296 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Brides -- The Roman wedding -- Sexuality and ritual: Catullus' wedding poems -- Isis at a wedding: gender, ethnicity, and Roman identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9 -- Wartime weddings: Lucan's Civil war and Seneca's Trojan women -- Quartilla's priapic weddings in Petronius' Satyrica: female power and male impotence -- Mourners -- Roman burial rites -- Mourning Orpheus: poetry and lament in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11 -- A new hope: burying the war dead in Statius' Thebaid 12 -- Bacchae -- Bacchic rites in Greece and Rome -- Roman Bacchae: Dionysiac mysteries, masculinity, and the state in Livy's Bacchanalian narrative -- Philomela's Bacchic justice: ritual resistance and abusive authority in Metamorphoses 6 -- Hypsipyle's Bacchic pietas: ritual, exemplarity, and gender in Valerius and Statius -- Women-only rituals -- Women-only rituals in Rome -- Spinning Hercules: gender, religion, and geography in Propertius 4.9 -- Hercules and the founding mothers: Mater Matuta and the matralia in Ovid's Fasti 6 -- Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in Statius' Achilleid -- Epilogue: Tacita's rites and the story of Lara in Ovid's Fasti 2.
- ISBN
- 9781421428918
- 1421428911
- 9781421428925 (canceled/invalid)
- 142142892X (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018036946
- OCLC
- YBP 2018036946
- Author
Panoussi, Vassiliki, 1967- author.
- Title
Brides, mourners, Bacchae : women's rituals in Roman literature / Vassiliki Panoussi.
- Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
©2019
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.