The Role of the Vestal Virgins in Roman Civic Religion :: a Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti.

This study introduces a question, somewhat disregarded or discounted in recent years, regarding the link between the Vestals and early Christian consecrated virgins. In a political interpretation of the ancient Roman virginity cult, this work demonstrates that female virginity was understood by both...

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1. Verfasser: Thompson, Lindsay J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Schriftenreihe:Hors serie
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Zusammenfassung:This study introduces a question, somewhat disregarded or discounted in recent years, regarding the link between the Vestals and early Christian consecrated virgins. In a political interpretation of the ancient Roman virginity cult, this work demonstrates that female virginity was understood by both Christian and non-Christian Romans as a symbolic analogue of the securely intact body politic.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (169 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773430143
0773430148