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100 1 _aThompson, Lindsay J.
245 1 4 _aThe role of vestal virgins in Roman civic religion
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba structuralist study of the crimen incesti /
_cLindsay J. Thompson ; with a foreword by James J. O'Donnell.
260 _aLewiston, [N.Y.] :
_bEdwin Mellen Press,
_cc2010
300 _a1 online resource (ii, 161 p.)
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aForeword / 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aRome
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650 0 _aVestal virgins.
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