Greek Virginity
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Greek Virginity
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Author : Giulia Sissa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Greek Virginity written by Giulia Sissa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Explores ancient sexuality, focusing on symbolism as well as on beliefs, and explores the concept of the female body in Greece before the impact of Christianity.
Virginity Revisited
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Author : Bonnie MacLachlan
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Virginity Revisited written by Bonnie MacLachlan and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with History categories.
From Classical Antiquity to the present, virginity has been closely allied with power: as someone who chooses a life of celibacy retains mastery over his or her body. Sexual potency withheld becomes an energy-reservoir that can ensure independence and enhance self-esteem, but it can also be harnessed by public institutions and redirected for the common good. This was the founding principle of the Vestal Virgins of Rome and later in the monastic orders of the middle ages. Mythical accounts of goddesses and heroines who possessed the ability to recover their virginity after sexual experience demonstrate a belief that virginity is paradoxically connected both with social autonomy and the ability to serve the human community. Virginity Revisited is a collection of essays that examines virginity not as a physical reality but as a cultural artefact. By situating the topic of virginity within a range of historical 'moments' and using a variety of methodologies, Virginity Revisited illuminates how chastity provided a certain agency, autonomy, and power to women. This is a study of the positive and negative features of sexual renunciation, from ancient Greek divinities and mythical women, in Rome's Vestal Virgins, in the Christian martyrs and Mariology in the Medieval and early Modern period, and in Grace Marks, the heroine of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace.
Bride Of Hades To Bride Of Christ
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Author : Abbe Lind Walker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-02-14
Bride Of Hades To Bride Of Christ written by Abbe Lind Walker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-14 with History categories.
This volume argues that ancient Greek girls and early Christian virgins and their families made use of rhetorically similar traditions of marriage to an otherworldly bridegroom in order to handle the problem of a girl’s denied or disrupted transition into adulthood. In both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childbirth. When problems arose just before or during this transition, the transitional girl’s status within society became insecure. Walker presents a case for how and why the dead Greek virgin girl, depicted in Archaic through Hellenistic sources, in both texts and inscriptions, as a bride of Hades, and the life-long female Christian virgin or celibate ascetic, dubbed the bride of Christ around the third century CE, provide a fruitful point of comparison as particular examples of strategies used to neutralize the tension of disrupted female transition into adulthood. Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ offers a fascinating comparative study that will be of interest to anyone working on virginity and womanhood in the ancient world.
The Greek Tycoon S Virgin Wife
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Author : Helen Bianchin
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2007-10-01
The Greek Tycoon S Virgin Wife written by Helen Bianchin and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Fiction categories.
When a ruthless Greek tycoon weds a beautiful virgin, the marriage of convenience leads to all-consuming passion in this dramatic romance. When Greek business mogul Xandro Caramanis decides to settle down and get married, he approaches the project in his customary fashion—with exacting standards and no compromises. wants a wife. His wife must be beautiful, well-bred, willing to give him an heir—and willing to accept a loveless arrangement. Ilana Girard is a society beauty with a head for business. She accepts Xandro’s proposal because she needs his protection. She understands that emotions are not part of the deal. But Xandro doesn’t realize she’s never slept with a man before. When she reluctantly takes her place in his bed, they discover an intimate connection that will turn their sensible arrangement on its head . . .
Virgin Sacrifice In Classical Art
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Author : Anthony F. Mangieri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-22
Virgin Sacrifice In Classical Art written by Anthony F. Mangieri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Art categories.
The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of virgin sacrifice appear persistently in art and literature for over a millennium? Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War seeks to answer this question. This book tells the stories of the sacrificial maidens in order to help the reader discover the meanings bound up in these myths for historical people. In exploring the representations of Iphigeneia and Polyxena in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art, this book offers a broader cultural history that reveals what people in the ancient world were seeking in these stories. The result is an interdisciplinary study that offers new interpretations on the meaning of the sacrificial virgin as a cultural and ideological construction. This is the first book-length study of virgin sacrifice in ancient art and the first to provide an interpretive framework within which to understand its imagery.
Signs Of Virginity
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Author : Michael Rosenberg
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-10
Signs Of Virginity written by Michael Rosenberg and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-10 with Religion categories.
Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions. In Signs of Virginity, Michael Rosenberg examines the history of virginity testing in Judaism and early Christianity, and the relationship of these tests to a culture that encourages male sexual violence. Deuteronomy's violent vision of virginity has held sway in Jewish and Christian circles more or less ever since. However, Rosenberg points to two authors-the rabbinic collective that produced the Babylonian Talmud and the early Christian thinker Augustine of Hippo-who, even as they perpetuate patriarchal assumptions about female virginity, nonetheless attempt to subvert the emphasis on sexual dominance bequeathed to them by Deuteronomy. Unlike the authors of earlier Rabbinic and Christian texts, who modified but fundamentally maintained and even extended the Deuteronomic ideal, the Babylonian Talmud and Augustine both construct alternative models of female virginity that, if taken seriously, would utterly reverse cultural ideals of masculinity. Indeed this vision of masculinity as fundamentally gentle, rather than characterized by brutal and violent sexual behavior, fits into a broader idealization of masculinity propagated by both authors, who reject what Augustine called a "lust for dominance" as a masculine ideal.
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kathleen Coyne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
Performing Virginity And Testing Chastity In The Middle Ages written by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
This book challenges the belief that female virginity can be reliably and unambiguously defined, tested and verified. Kelly analyses a variety of medieval Western European texts - including medical treatises and their Classical antecedents - and historical and legal documents. The main focus is the representation of both male and female virgins in saints' legends and romances. The author also makes a comparative study of examples from contemporary fiction, television and film in which testing virginity is a theme. Performing Virginity and Testing Chastity in the Middle Ages presents a compelling and provocative study of the parodox of bodily and spiritual integrity as both presence and absence.
Bought The Greek S Innocent Virgin Mills Boon Modern
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Author : Sarah Morgan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Bought The Greek S Innocent Virgin Mills Boon Modern written by Sarah Morgan and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Fiction categories.
A ruthless Greek billionaire. . . At Angelos Zouvelekis's command, café waitress Chantal will play the part of his bride-to-be. He will shower her with exquisite jewels and silks. . . and she will repay him in kind! He wants his recompense in the bedroom!
Virgin
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Author : Hanne Blank
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-03-04
Virgin written by Hanne Blank and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-04 with History categories.
A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages
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Author : Tanya Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-08
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages written by Tanya Pollard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-08 with Literary Collections categories.
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.