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Carte Dangerous Gifts Deborah Lyons

Dangerous Gifts

Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece

Autor: Deborah Lyons
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: University of Texas Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphia...

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Autor
Deborah Lyons
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2012
Pagini
182
EAN
9780292754331
ISBN
0292754337
Enbook ID
04873805
Editura
University of Texas Press
Greutate
302
Dimensiuni
154 x 231 x 13

Descriere completă

Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus' wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts appear to be a particularly deadly combination. This book explores the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts, and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship, and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange, the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic and social place of women in ancient Greece. Her findings not only enlarge our understanding of social attitudes and practices in Greek antiquity but also demonstrate the applicability of ethnographic techniques and anthropological theory to the study of ancient societies.

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