La risa de Deméter: aischrologia y Kalligeneia en las Tesmoforias de Atenas

Abstract

On these pages we analyze the Thesmophoria as an occasion for the festive joy of the women of Athens, especially in relation to two ritual moments, the aischrologia and Kalligeneia celebration. In any case the feast as a whole could be considered as a moment of recreation and joy for females, in a momentary space of “freedom”, bounded and regulated by the city; in this context, feminine “speeches”, alternative to those of the official ideology of the polis but at the same time, immersed in them, can be perceived.