Description:
Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women's rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recently started to gain sustained academic attention. The volume aims to tease out a number of different approaches and contexts, and to expand existing studies of women in the ancient world, as well as scholarship on religious and social history.
Review Quotes:
"This book makes a significant contribution to both gender studies and studies on ancient Mediterranean religions ... this is a much-needed volume which opens the field to viewing women's agency in ancient religions in a variety of different ways. Both scholars and students will find much of value in this edited collection."
- Jennifer Martinez Morales, Monmouth College, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018