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22%OFFBarbara Goff - Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece - 9780520239982 - V9780520239982
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Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece

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Description for Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece Hardback. Num Pages: 413 pages, 11 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
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 and sophisticated 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
413
Condition
New
Number of Pages
413
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520239982
SKU
V9780520239982
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About Barbara Goff
Barbara Goff is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. She is editor of History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama (1995) and author of The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence, and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos (1990).

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