TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiLuzio,Meghan J.
TI  - A place at the altar: priestesses in Republican Rome 
SN  - 1400883032
AV  - BL815.W66 D55 2016
U1  - 292.6/1 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Women priests
KW  - Rome
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Paganism & Neo-Paganism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Antiquities & Archaeology
KW  - Ancient
KW  - Religion
KW  - fast
KW  - Priesterin
KW  - gnd
KW  - Staatskult
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Bona Dea
KW  - December rites
KW  - Fordicidia
KW  - Fortuna Muliebris
KW  - Jupiter
KW  - Magna Mater
KW  - October House
KW  - Roman politics
KW  - Roman priesthood
KW  - Roman religion
KW  - Roman ritual system
KW  - Roman society
KW  - Roman women
KW  - Salian Virgins
KW  - Vesta
KW  - Vestal Virgins
KW  - Vestal costume
KW  - Vestal priesthood
KW  - Vestal regalia
KW  - Vestal virgins
KW  - Vestals
KW  - ancient Rome
KW  - authority
KW  - birth families
KW  - collegium pontificum
KW  - cultic assistants
KW  - female sacrificial incapacity
KW  - feminine virtue
KW  - fertility
KW  - flamen Martialis
KW  - flamen
KW  - flamines
KW  - flaminica Dialis
KW  - flaminica Martialis
KW  - flaminicae
KW  - food supply
KW  - freedwomen
KW  - gender constructions
KW  - internal autonomy
KW  - laywomen
KW  - leadership
KW  - male authority
KW  - mola salsa
KW  - moral probity
KW  - palla
KW  - pax deorum
KW  - pontifex
KW  - pontifical college
KW  - priest
KW  - priestess
KW  - priestesses
KW  - priestly couples
KW  - priestly service
KW  - public careers
KW  - public cult
KW  - public cults
KW  - public priestesses
KW  - public ritual
KW  - public slaves
KW  - regina sacrorum
KW  - religion
KW  - religious activities
KW  - religious official
KW  - religious orders
KW  - religious roles
KW  - religious service
KW  - rex sacrorum
KW  - ritual activities
KW  - ritual impurity
KW  - ritual purity
KW  - rituals
KW  - sacerdotes
KW  - saliae virgines
KW  - seni crines hairstyle
KW  - suffibulum
KW  - tunica
KW  - virginity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The Flamen and Flaminica dialis -- Priestly couples -- Salian virgins, sacerdotes, and ministrae -- The Vestal Virgins -- The costume of the Vestal Virgins -- The ritual activities of the Vestal Virgins -- The Vestal Virgins in Roman politics -- Conclusion
N2  - "A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly service was a cooperative endeavor, requiring men and women, husbands and wives, and elite Romans and slaves to work together to manage the community's relationship with its gods. Like their male colleagues, priestesses offered sacrifices on behalf of the Roman people, and prayed for the community's well-being. As they carried out their ritual obligations, they were assisted by female cult personnel, many of them slave women. DiLuzio explores the central role of the Vestal Virgins and shows that they occupied just one type of priestly office open to women. Some priestesses, including the flaminica Dialis, the regina sacrorum, and the wives of the curial priests, served as part of priestly couples. Others, such as the priestesses of Ceres and Fortuna Muliebris, were largely autonomous. A Place at the Altar offers a fresh understanding of how the women of ancient Rome played a leading role in public cult"--
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