Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ

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.

Autorentext

Abbe Lind Walker is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Connecticut College, USA. Her research unites multiple strands of interest, including gender in antiquity, religions in the ancient Mediterranean, and the social and cultural history of classical Greece and late antique Rome. This is her first book.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Virgin suicides 1. Loving death 2. Protecting the virgin bride Part I Conclusion Part II: Parents of the bride 3. Hades takes a bride 4. Recruiting brides of Christ Part II Conclusion Epilogue