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Beschreibung
This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl's denied or disrupted transition into adulthood.
This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl's denied or disrupted transition into adulthood.
Über den Autor

Abbe Lind Walker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Connecticut College, USA. Her research unites multiple strands of interest, including gender in antiquity, religions in the ancient Mediterranean, and the social and cultural history of classical Greece and late antique Rome. This is her first book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: Virgin suicides 1. Loving death 2. Protecting the virgin bride Part I Conclusion Part II: Parents of the bride 3. Hades takes a bride 4. Recruiting brides of Christ Part II Conclusion Epilogue

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Altertum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781032474786
ISBN-10: 1032474785
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Walker, Abbe Lind
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Abbe Lind Walker
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2023
Gewicht: 0,298 kg
Artikel-ID: 126754060

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