Brides, mourners, Bacchae : women's rituals in Roman literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Panoussi, Vassiliki, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation. Women in literature. Latin literature > History and criticism. Epithalamia > Rome > History and criticism. Mourning customs in literature. Bacchantes in literature.

Table of Contents:

Brides
The Roman wedding
Sexuality and ritual: Catullus' wedding poems
Isis at a wedding: gender, ethnicity, and Roman identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses 9
Wartime weddings: Lucan's Civil war and Seneca's Trojan women
Quartilla's priapic weddings in Petronius' Satyrica: female power and male impotence
Mourners
Roman burial rites
Mourning Orpheus: poetry and lament in Ovid's Metamorphoses 10 and 11
A new hope: burying the war dead in Statius' Thebaid 12
Bacchae
Bacchic rites in Greece and Rome
Roman Bacchae: Dionysiac mysteries, masculinity, and the state in Livy's Bacchanalian narrative
Philomela's Bacchic justice: ritual resistance and abusive authority in Metamorphoses 6
Hypsipyle's Bacchic pietas: ritual, exemplarity, and gender in Valerius and Statius
Women-only rituals
Women-only rituals in Rome
Spinning Hercules: gender, religion, and geography in Propertius 4.9
Hercules and the founding mothers: Mater Matuta and the matralia in Ovid's Fasti 6
Dancing in Scyros: masculinity and young women's rituals in Statius' Achilleid
Epilogue: Tacita's rites and the story of Lara in Ovid's Fasti 2.