TY - BOOK ID - 61265676 TI - Brides, mourners, Bacchae : women's rituals in Roman literature PY - 2019 SN - 9781421428925 142142892X 9781421428918 1421428911 PB - Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press DB - UniCat KW - Women in literature. KW - Latin literature KW - Epithalamia KW - Mourning customs in literature. KW - Bacchantes in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Ovid, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Women in literature KW - Mourning customs in literature KW - Bacchantes in literature KW - Epithalamic poetry KW - Epithalamies KW - Epithalamions KW - Epithalamiums KW - Nuptial poetry KW - Wedding songs KW - Love poetry KW - Occasional verse KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Nasó, P. Ovidi, KW - Naso, Publius Ovidius, KW - Nazon, KW - Ouidio, KW - Ovide, KW - Ovidi, KW - Ovidi Nasó, P., KW - Ovidiĭ, KW - Ovidiĭ Nazon, Publiĭ, KW - Ovidio, KW - Ovidio Nasón, P., KW - Ovidio Nasone, Publio, KW - Ovidios, KW - Ovidiu, KW - Ovidius Naso, P., KW - Ovidius Naso, Publius, KW - Owidiusz, KW - P. Ovidius Naso, KW - Publiĭ Ovidiĭ Nazon, KW - Publio Ovidio Nasone, KW - Ūvīd, KW - אוביד, KW - E-books KW - Epithalamia. KW - Frau KW - Latein. KW - Latin literature. KW - Literatur. KW - Rome (Empire). KW - Ovid UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61265676 AB - 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 life—Latin 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 through which Roman authors explored the problems of women's agency, subjectivity, civic identity, and self-expression. By focusing on the fruitful intersection of gender and religion, the book elucidates not only the importance of female religious experience in Rome but also the complexity of ideological processes affecting Roman ideas about gender, sexuality, family, and society. Brides, Mourners, Bacchae will be of value to scholars of classics and ancient religions, as well as anyone interested in the study of gender in antiquity or the connection between religion and ideology. ER -