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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hors seriePublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (169 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780773430143
  • 0773430148
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Role of the Vestal Virgins in Roman Civic Religion : A Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti.DDC classification:
  • 292.610820937
LOC classification:
  • BL815.V4 T46 2010
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
THE ROLE OF THE VESTAL VIRGINS IN ROMAN CIVIC RELIGION: A Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter One -- Interpreting Culture; Chapter Two -- Roman Civic Religion; Chapter Three -- Roman Myth and Ritual; Chapter Four -- Roman Virginity and the Vestal Cult; Chapter Five -- Vestal Mythology; Chapter Six -- The Vestal Ritual Tradition; Chapter Seven -- Interpreting Vestal Virginity; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index.
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Summary: 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.

THE ROLE OF THE VESTAL VIRGINS IN ROMAN CIVIC RELIGION: A Structuralist Study of the crimen incesti; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter One -- Interpreting Culture; Chapter Two -- Roman Civic Religion; Chapter Three -- Roman Myth and Ritual; Chapter Four -- Roman Virginity and the Vestal Cult; Chapter Five -- Vestal Mythology; Chapter Six -- The Vestal Ritual Tradition; Chapter Seven -- Interpreting Vestal Virginity; Bibliography of Primary Sources; Bibliography of Secondary Sources; Index.

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.

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English.