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Author Mastrocinque, Attilio, author

Title Bona Dea and the cults of Roman women / Attilio Mastrocinque
Published Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Series Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; 49
Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; 49.
Contents Intro; CONTENTS; I. PREFACE; II. INTRODUCTION; III. GIRLS AND PAGAN GODS; 1. METHOD; 2. VIRGINITY WITHOUT HYMEN; 3. GODS AND THE IUS PRIMÆ NOCTIS ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE; 4. PAGAN GODS AND THEIR IUS PRIMÆ NOCTIS; 5. SYMBOLIC ACTS; 6. LUPERCALIA; 7. WHIPS AND BOXES: DIVINE SYMBOLS OF FERTILITY; IV. WEDDING INVITATION; 1. THE MYTH OF THE DISAPPOINTED HERCULES; 2. FAUNUS, A DISAPPOINTED GOD; 3. CEREMONIES AT THE HOME OF THE HIGHEST ROMAN MAGISTRATE; 4. THE MYTH OF BONA DEA; 5. CHARACTERISTICS OF BONA DEA; 6. BONA DEA AND DIONYSIAC MARRIAGE; 7. RULERS WHO PERFORMED HIEROGAMY RITUALS
8. IMAGES OF DIONYSUS AND WOMEN ON ROMAN SARCOPHAGI9. HERCULES AT DIONYSUS' WEDDING; 10. A DIONYSISM WITHOUT DIONYSUS?; 11. MEN AT THE FESTIVAL OF BONA DEA; 12. PLUMP LYDE'S BOX; 13. A RITUAL FOR BOYS; 14. THE FESTIVAL FOR MEN; V. INITIATIONS AND POLITICAL POWER; 1. BACCHIC FESTIVALS AND ROMAN WOMEN; 2. HOW MANY CEREMONIES FOR BONA DEA?; 3. LIVIA AND BONA DEA; 4. THE SENACULUM MULIERUM; VI. OMPHALE; 1. THE ITALIC ORIGINS OF THE ROMAN OMPHALE; 2. HERCULES MUSARUM; 3. THE MEANING OF CLODIUS DISGUISEMENT; 4. THE RITUAL OF JUNO CAPROTINA; 5. ROMAN GIRLS RAPED BY HERCULES; 6. DREAMING OF THE GOD
7. THE MARRIAGE OF LAVINIA8. OMPHALE: A GODDESS OF MAGNA GRÆCIA; 9. OMPHALE, A LUCANIAN AND JAPYGIAN GODDESS; 10. OMPHALE WITHIN THE HELLENISTIC CULTS; 10. OMPHALE OR DEMETER?; 11. DEMETRIAN FEATURES OF BONA DEA'S FESTIVALS; 12. CHRONOLOGY; 13. THE GODDESS OF WOMANHOOD; VII. THE REIGN OF BACCHUS; 1. LIBER AND LIBERA; 2. LIBERA AND ARIADNE; 3. ORIENTAL CULTS?; 4. THE ORPHISM OF BONA DEA; 5. ORPHIC PATTERNS; VIII. DIVINE DAUGHTERS AND WIVES; 1. THE RITUALS AND MYTHOLOGY OF ANNA PERENNA; 2. SOCIAL STATUS AND FERTILITY RITUALS; 3. THE MEANING OF THE RITUALS; 4. ŚURI, AN ETRUSCAN AND FALISCAN GOD
5. CAVATHA, AN ETRUSCAN QUEEN OF THE NETHERWORLD6. ŚURI AND FAUNUS IN A BACCHIC WORLD; 7. POMONUS AND VESUNA; 8. CIRCE AND PICUS; 9. POMONA AND VERTUMNUS; 10. MARICA AND MARES; 11. MINERVA TRITONIA AND TRITON IN LAVINIUM; IX. OPPOSITION AND COMPLEMENTARITY; 1. FOREST AND GARDEN; 2. WINE; 3. FLORA; 4. THE CALENDAR; 5. INITIATIONS; 6. CONCLUSION; ABBREVIATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Bona Dea (Roman deity)
Women -- Rome -- History
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
Bona Dea (Roman deity)
Women
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3515107541
9783515107549