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Brides, Mourners, Bacchae : Women's Rituals in Roman Literature by Ovid;Panoussi, Vassiliki is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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How does the treatment of women's rituals in Latin poetry and prose reveal Roman ideas of female agency? Powerful female characters pervade both Greek and Latin literature, even if their presence is largely dictated by the narratives of men. Feminist approaches to the study of women in Greek literature have helped illustrate the importance of their religious and ritual roles in public lifeLatin literature, however, has not been subject to similar scrutiny. In Brides, Mourners, Bacchae , Vassiliki Panoussi takes up the challenge, exploring women's place in weddings, funerals, Bacchic rites, and women-only rituals. Panoussi probes the multifaceted ways women were able to exercise influence, even power, in ancient Rome from the days of the late Republic to Flavian times. Systematically investigating both poetry and prose, Panoussi covers a wide variety of genres, from lyric poetry (Catullus), epic (Ovid, Lucan, Valerius, Statius), elegy (Propertius, Ovid), and tragedy (Seneca) to historiography (Livy) and the novel (Petronius). The first large-scale analysis of this body of evidence from a feminist perspective, the book makes a compelling case that female ritual was an important lens

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Author

Ovid;Panoussi, Vassiliki

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421428925

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction