Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women’s Rituals in Roman Literature by Vassiliki Panoussi
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Overview: How does the treatment of women’s rituals in Latin poetry and prose reveal Roman ideas of female agency?
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).
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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