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4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The Invention of Virginity on Olympus 13
- 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus 24
- 3. The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health 40
- 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State 66
- 5. ‘Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ’: The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity 100
- 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art 116
- 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina 128
- 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet’s Treatment of the Virgin Birth 149
- 9. ‘Sew and snip, and patch together a genius’: Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace 156
- Works Cited 177
- Index 197
- Backmatter 205
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. The Invention of Virginity on Olympus 13
- 2. The Virgin Choruses of Aeschylus 24
- 3. The Hippocratic Parthenos in Sickness and Health 40
- 4. Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State 66
- 5. ‘Only Virgins Can Give Birth to Christ’: The Virgin Mary and the Problem of Female Authority in Late Antiquity 100
- 6. Virgo Fortis: Images of the Crucified Virgin Saint in Medieval Art 116
- 7. Amplification of the Virgin: Play and Empowerment in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina 128
- 8. Christ from the Head of Jupiter: An Epistemological Note on Huet’s Treatment of the Virgin Birth 149
- 9. ‘Sew and snip, and patch together a genius’: Quilting a Virginal Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace 156
- Works Cited 177
- Index 197
- Backmatter 205