Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. By Barbara Goff. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 400. $60.00.)
The first word in this book's title alludes to what most scholars see as a great lack in the lives of the women of ancient Greece. "Deprived" of the political rights that reign supreme in modern values, Greek women were, nonetheless, active and often visible participants in the ritual life of their families and their ...