The role of vestal virgins in Roman civic religion : a structuralist study of the crimen incesti /
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| Author / Creator: | Thompson, Lindsay J. |
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| Imprint: | Lewiston, [N.Y.] : Edwin Mellen Press, c2010. |
| Description: | ii, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8117203 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- 1. 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
- The Body as a Political Paradigm
- Gender and Culture
- Sex as Category of Social Differentiation
- 2. Roman Civic Religion
- Roman Marriage, Family, and Gender Relations
- Roman Gender Relations
- Roman Civic Identity: Romanitas
- Roman Religion
- 3. Roman Myth and Ritual
- Structural Elements of Roman Myth and Ritual
- Cult Symbols and Themes
- Roman Religious Sensibility
- 4. Roman Virginity and the Vestal Cult
- Ancient Texts
- Archaeological Record
- Language of the Vestal Cult
- 5. Vestal Mythology
- Mythic Narratives
- Vestal Characters and Relationships
- Vestal Sexuality and Gender
- 6. 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
- 7. Interpreting Vestal Virginity
- Virginity in the Late Antique Political Imagination
- What Happened to the Vestals?
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Bibliography of Secondary Sources
- Index
