“Barred from participating in many public arenas, women in the ancient Mediterranean asserted their presence by performing rituals at festivals and presiding over rites associated with life passages and healing. The essays in this lively and timely volume investigate the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. ”
“As the excellent introduction makes clear, there are good reasons why the study of women and religion is an exciting topic at this time.”
— H. Alan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University
“. . . a good representation of the potential of the study of women’s rituals as a medium for relocating women to the center of ancient society from their long relegation at the edge. January 2009”
— Randall S. Howarth
, Mercyhurst College
“[T]his volume has advanced the study of women and men and ritual in the ancient Mediterranean, an area which has rightly entered the mainstream of classical scholarship.”
— Classical Review
“[This] volume spans nearly a millennium of the Greco-Roman world. It offers a snapshot of the best work in a burgeoning subfield. Especially welcome is the fresh attention paid to issues of female agency, local differentiation in cult practices, and the precise literary, material, and socio-political contexts of our evidence. August, 2011”
— Journal of Folklore Research
“[T]he scholars who contributed to this volume have done a fine job of initial recovery with careful re-interpretation of their maddeningly fragmentary primary sources. 69.1, 2010”
— Western Folklore
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