{"product_id":"bride-of-hades-to-bride-abbe-lind-walker-9781032474786","title":"Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ: The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn both ancient Greece and early Christian Rome, the standard female transition into adulthood was marked by marriage, sex, and childbirth. When problems arose just before or during this transition, the transitional girl's status within society became insecure. Walker presents a case for how and why the dead Greek virgin girl, depicted in Archaic through Hellenistic sources, in both texts and inscriptions, as a bride of Hades, and the life-long female Christian virgin or celibate ascetic, dubbed the bride of Christ around the third century CE, provide a fruitful point of comparison as particular examples of strategies used to neutralize the tension of disrupted female transition into adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBride of Hades to Bride of Christ offers a fascinating comparative study that will be of interest to anyone working on virginity and womanhood in the ancient world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abbe Lind Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032474785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032474786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Abbe Lind Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302028472575,"sku":"9781032474786","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1362e83-1e7f-4f5d-81a2-2ccccbc8c93e.jpg?v=1695159107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bride-of-hades-to-bride-abbe-lind-walker-9781032474786","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}