A Place at the Altar (eBook)

Priestesses in Republican Rome

Meghan J. DiLuzio (Autor)

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2016
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8303-5 (ISBN)

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Meghan J. DiLuzio is assistant professor of classics at Baylor University.

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A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, husbands and wives, and elite Romans and slaves to work together to manage the community's relationship with its gods.Like their male colleagues, priestesses offered sacrifices on behalf of the Roman people, and prayed for the community's well-being. As they carried out their ritual obligations, they were assisted by female cult personnel, many of them slave women. DiLuzio explores the central role of the Vestal Virgins and shows that they occupied just one type of priestly office open to women. Some priestesses, including the flaminica Dialis, the regina sacrorum, and the wives of the curial priests, served as part of priestly couples. Others, such as the priestesses of Ceres and Fortuna Muliebris, were largely autonomous.A Place at the Altar offers a fresh understanding of how the women of ancient Rome played a leading role in public cult.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 19 halftones. 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 58 BC • Aeneid • Ancient Rome • animal sacrifice • antiquarian • Argei • Augur • Aulus Gellius • authority • baylor university • birth families • Bona Dea • Cato the Elder • chastity • Clodius • collegium pontificum • Confarreatio • Consualia • Costume • cultic assistants • Culture of ancient Rome • December rites • deity • Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Divination • Exclusion • Fasti • Februa • female sacrificial incapacity • feminine virtue • fertility • Flamen • flamen Martialis • flamines • flaminica Dialis • flaminicae • flaminica Martialis • Food supply • Fordicidia • Fortuna • Fortuna Muliebris • freedwomen • Gender Constructions • Gender Role • Hairstyle • Haruspex • hearth • Household • Ideology • Inauguration • Incense • internal autonomy • Juno (mythology) • Jupiter • Lares • laywomen • Leadership • Lentulus • licinia • Licinia (gens) • Lictor • livy • Lustratio • Magna Mater • male authority • marriage • Mary Beard (classicist) • Mater Matuta • mola salsa • moral probity • October House • officiant • Palla • Parentalia • pater familias • Patrician (ancient Rome) • Paul the Deacon • pax deorum • plebs • Pliny the Elder • Pomerium • Pontifex • pontifex maximus • pontifical college • praetor • Priest • Priestess • priestesses • priestly couples • priestly service • Principate • procession • Propertius • Proscription • public careers • public cult • public cults • public priestesses • public ritual • public slaves • Pudicitia • quirites • regina sacrorum • Religion • Religious Activities • religious official • Religious Orders • religious roles • religious service • rex sacrorum • Rhea Silvia • Rite • ritual activities • ritual impurity • Ritual purification • ritual purity • Rituals • Roman consul • Roman festivals • Roman Mythology • Roman politics • Roman priesthood • Roman Religion • Roman Ritual • Roman ritual system • Roman Society • roman women • sabines • sacerdotes • saliae virgines • Salian Virgins • Salii • Secespita • seni crines hairstyle • sexual abstinence • Sexuality in ancient Rome • Social Status • spouse • Stola • Suetonius • suffibulum • Sulla • Tacitus • Tarpeia • Temple of Vesta • Tertullian • The Other Hand • The Rape of the Sabine Women • The Vestal Virgin (David) • Titus Tatius • Toga • tomb • treatise • Tunica • Tutela • Valerius Maximus • Venus verticordia • Verginia • Vesta • Vestal costume • Vestalia • Vestal priesthood • Vestal regalia • vestals • Vestal Virgin • Vestal virgins • Vesta (mythology) • Virgil • virginity • wreath
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8303-2 / 1400883032
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8303-5 / 9781400883035