Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ : The Virgin and the Otherworldly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome - 9781032474786

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.

• | : Abbe Lind Walker (Connecticut College, USA)
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2023
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 188 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1032474785
• | ISBN-13: 9781032474786