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a structuralist study of the crimen incesti

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Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
161

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Subjects
Religion, Vestal virgins
Places
Rome

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Table of Contents

Foreword / by James J. O'Donnell
Interpreting culture. Historical consciousness and historiography ; Human experience and cultural structures of meaning ; The body as a political site and symbol ; Embodiment and cultural structures of meaning ; Embodiment and cultural identity ; The body as a political paradigm ; Gender and culture ; Sex as category of social differentiation ; Summary
Roman civic religion. Roman marriage, family, and gender relations ; The Roman family ; Roman gender relations ; Roman civic identity : Romanitas ; Roman religion
Roman myth and ritual. Structural elements of Roman myth and ritual ; Cult symbols and themes ; Roman religious sensibility
Roman virginity and the vestal cult. Ancient texts ; Archaeological record ; General features of the vestal cult ; Language of the vestal cult
Vestal mythology. Mythic narratives ; Vestal themes and images ; Vestal characters and relationships ; Vestal sexuality and gender
The vestal ritual tradition. Rituals of the vestal cult ; The vestal role in Roman civic cult observance ; Ritual patterns of the crimen incesti ; The crimen incesti ritual as sacrificial purification The crimen incesti ritual as heroic ordeal
Interpreting vestal virginity. Virginity in the late antique political imagination ; What happened to the vestals? ; Concluding thoughts.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lewiston, [N.Y.]

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Dewey Decimal Class
292.6/10820937
Library of Congress
BL815.V4 T46 2010

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ii, 161 p. :
Number of pages
161

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OL24489122M
ISBN 10
0773447652
ISBN 13
9780773447653
LCCN
2009046878
OCLC/WorldCat
465330514

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