The a structuralist study of the crimen incesti Thompson, Lindsay J. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu Lewiston, [N.Y.] Edwin Mellen Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (ii, 161 p.) ill. Foreword / by James J. O'Donnell -- Interpreting culture. Historical consciousness and historiography ; Human experience and cultural structures of meaning ; The body as a political site and symbol ; Embodiment and cultural structures of meaning ; Embodiment and cultural identity ; The body as a political paradigm ; Gender and culture ; Sex as category of social differentiation ; Summary -- Roman civic religion. Roman marriage, family, and gender relations ; The Roman family ; Roman gender relations ; Roman civic identity : Romanitas ; Roman religion -- Roman myth and ritual. Structural elements of Roman myth and ritual ; Cult symbols and themes ; Roman religious sensibility -- Roman virginity and the vestal cult. Ancient texts ; Archaeological record ; General features of the vestal cult ; Language of the vestal cult -- Vestal mythology. Mythic narratives ; Vestal themes and images ; Vestal characters and relationships ; Vestal sexuality and gender -- The vestal ritual tradition. Rituals of the vestal cult ; The vestal role in Roman civic cult observance ; Ritual patterns of the crimen incesti ; The crimen incesti ritual as sacrificial purification The crimen incesti ritual as heroic ordeal -- Interpreting vestal virginity. Virginity in the late antique political imagination ; What happened to the vestals? ; Concluding thoughts. Lindsay J. Thompson ; with a foreword by James J. O'Donnell. Includes bibliographical references and index. aw----- e------ ff----- Rome Religion Vestal virgins BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology BL815.V4 T46 2010 292.6/10820937 (DLC) 2009046878 0773430148 (electronic bk.) 9780773430143 (electronic bk.) http://books.google.com/books?id=vkYqAQAAMAAJ http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502267 http://books.google.com/books?id=vkYqAQAAMAAJ http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502267 YDXCP 121111 20200709055642.0 ocn817560998