Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-196) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Bonnie MacLachlan -- The invention of virginity on Olympus / Eleanor Irwin -- The virgin choruses of Aeschylus / Judith Fletcher -- The Hippocratic Parthenos in sickness and health / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Why were the vestals virgins? Or the chastity of women and the safety of the Roman state / Holt N. Parker -- 'Only virgins can give birth to Christ' : the Virgin Mary and the problem of female authority in late antiquity / Kate Cooper -- Virgo fortis : images of the crucified virgin saint in medieval art / Ilse Friesen -- Amplification of the virgin : play and empowerment in Walter of Wimborne's Marie Carmina / Jenifer Sutherland -- Christ from the head of Jupiter : an epistemological note on Huet's treatment of the Virgin Birth / Thomas Lennon -- 'Sew and snip, and patch together a genius' : quilting a virginal identity in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace / Anne Geddes Bailey.
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