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.
In both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childb...
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.
In both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childb...
