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Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction
Ritual and Gender: Critical Perspectives Angeliki Tzanetou 3
Sources and Methodology
The Scandal of Women's Ritual Deborah Lyons 29
Gender and Agency
Looking for the Images: Representations of Girls' Rituals in Ancient Athens Jenifer Neils 55
Improvising on the Athenian Stage: Women's Ritual Practice in Drama Barbara Goff 79
Sanctissima Femina: Social Categorization and Women's Religious Experience in the Roman Republic Celia E. Schultz 92
Threat and Hope: Women's Rituals and Civil War in Roman Epic Vassiliki Panoussi 114
Performance
Folk Songs as Ritual Acts: The Case of Work-Songs Andromache Karanika 137
The Rise of the Demon Womb in Greco-Roman Antiquity Christopher A. Faraone 154
Thesmophoria and Eleusinian Mysteries: The Fascination of Women's Secret Ritual Eva Stehle 165
Appropriations and Adaptations
Worshipping Demeter in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Maryline Parca 189
Nuptiarum Sollemnia? Girls' Transition to Marriage in the Roman Jurists Lauren Caldwell 209
Maidens and Manhood in the Worship of Dianaat Nemi Eve D'Ambra 228
Male Improvisation in the "Women's Cult" of Eileithyia on Paros David D. Leitao 252
Early Christian Antipathy Toward the Greek "Women Gods" Kathy L. Gaca 277
Bibliography 291
Contributors 317
Index 321
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