Bride of Hades to bride of Christ : the virgin and the otherworldly bridegroom in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome

Bride of Hades to bride of Christ : the virgin and the otherworldly bridegroom in ancient Greece and early Christian Rome /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Abbe Lind (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies.
Subjects:
To 500
Single women > Greece > History.
Single women > Rome > History.
Virgins > Greece > History.
Virgins > Rome > History.
Marriage customs and rites > Greece > History.
Marriage customs and rites > Rome > History.
Women > Greece > History > To 500.
Women > Rome > History > To 500.
Civilization, Classical.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Virgin suicides
  • 1. Loving death
  • 2. Protecting the virgin bride
  • pt. I Conclusion
  • pt. II Parents of the bride
  • 3. Hades takes a bride
  • 4. Recruiting brides of Christ
  • pt. II Conclusion.

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