Women’s Agency in the Cults of the Greco-Egyptian Deities in Hellenistic Athens
Cults for Greco-Egyptian gods such as Isis, Sarapis, Anubis, and Harpocrates enjoyed great interest in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period. This article analyses the agency of women in these cults in Hellenistic Athens and Delos. It poses the question whether the agency of women can be directl...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| En: |
Religion & gender
Año: 2024, Volumen: 14, Número: 1/2, Páginas: 56-80 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Serapeum C (Delos)
/ Athen
/ Mujer
/ Competencia de participación activa
/ Culto de Serapis
/ Culto de Ísis
/ Institución religiosa
/ Estructura familiar
/ Historia 300 a. C.-1 a. C.
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | AD Sociología de la religión AG Vida religiosa AX Relaciones inter-religiosas BC Antiguo Oriente ; Religión BE Religiones greco-romanas HH Arqueología KBK Europa oriental KCD Hagiografía RB Ministerio eclesiástico TB Antigüedad |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Sarapis
B Delos B Isis B Greco-Egyptian Gods B Athens B women’s agency |
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| Sumario: | Cults for Greco-Egyptian gods such as Isis, Sarapis, Anubis, and Harpocrates enjoyed great interest in the Greek world of the Hellenistic period. This article analyses the agency of women in these cults in Hellenistic Athens and Delos. It poses the question whether the agency of women can be directly compared to the agency of men. It identifies, first, reservations in modern scholarship about women in positions of religious power, and, second, institutional boundaries that excluded women from official priestly positions. It demonstrates the ways in which women nonetheless held agency within family networks, and, third, possessed ritual competencies beyond formal offices and a relationship to deities on a personal level. |
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| ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-01401004 |