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
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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