Birth Death And Motherhood In Classical Greece

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Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece

Author : Nancy Demand
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801847622
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece written by Nancy Demand and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, Nancy Demand offers the first comprehensive exploration of the social and cultural construction of childbirth in ancient Greece. Reading the ancient evidence in light of feminist theory, the Foucauldian notion of discursively constituted objects, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of the modern Greek village, Demand discusses topics that include midwifery, abortion, attitudes of doctors toward women patients, and the treatment of women generally. For evidence, she relies primarily on the case histories in the Epidemics concerning women with complications in pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth. She also draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.

Courtesans and Fishcakes

Author : James N. Davidson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226137430
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Courtesans and Fishcakes written by James N. Davidson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any reader of the Symposium knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he reflected the culture of ancient Greece in which he lived, a culture of passions and pleasures, of food, drink, and sex before—and in concert with—politics and principles. Athenians, the richest and most powerful of the Greeks, were as skilled at consuming as their playwrights were at devising tragedies. Weaving together Greek texts, critical theory, and witty anecdotes, this compelling and accessible study teaches the reader a great deal, not only about the banquets and temptations of ancient Athens, but also about how to read Greek comedy and history.

Women in Classical Antiquity

Author : Laura K. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118413652
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Women in Classical Antiquity written by Laura K. McClure and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to women and gender in the classical world that draws on the most recent research in the field Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating and comparing the life situations of women across both cultures. The author examines the lifecycle of women in ancient Greek and Rome beginning with how young females acquired the gendered characteristics necessary for adulthood. The text explores female adolescence, including concerns about virginity, medical views of the female body, religious roles, and education. Views of marriage, motherhood, sexual activity, adultery, and prostitution are also examined. In addition, the author explores how women exercised authority and the possibilities for their civic engagement. This important resource: Explores the formation of classical women’s social identity through the life stages of birth, adolescence, marriage, childbirth, old age, and death Contains information on the most recent research in this rapidly evolving field Offers a review of the life course as a way to understand the social processes by which Greek and Roman females acquired gender traits Includes questions for review, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms Written for academics and students of classical antiquity, Women in Classical Antiquity offers a general introduction to women and gender in the classical world.

The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History

Author : Nancy H. Demand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405155515
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History written by Nancy H. Demand and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History p>“Drawing extensively on the latest archaeological data from the entire Mediterranean basin, Nancy Demand offers a compelling argument for situating the origins of the Greek city-state within a pan-Mediterranean network of maritime interactions that stretches back millennia.” Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago “Nancy Demand’s book is a remarkable achievement. Her Heraklian labors have produced stunning documentation of the consequences of the vast spectrum of interaction between the peoples surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the Mesolithic into the Iron Age.” Carol Thomas, University of Washington Were the origins of the Greek city-state – the polis – a unique creation of Greek genius? Or did their roots extend much deeper? Noted historian Nancy H. Demand joins the growing group of scholars and historians who have abandoned traditional isolationist models of the development of the Greek polis and cast their scholarly gaze seaward, to the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean. The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History reveals the role the complex interaction of Mediterranean cultures and maritime connections had in shaping and developing urbanization, including the ancient Greek city-states. Utilizing, and enhancing upon, the model of the “fantastic cauldron” first put forth by Jean-Paul Morel in 1983, Demand reveals how Greek city-states did not simply emerge in isolation in remote country villages, but rather, sprang up along the shores of the Mediterranean in an intricate maritime network of Greeks and non-Greeks alike. We learn how early seafaring trade, such as the development of obsidian trade in the Aegean, stimulated innovations in the provision of food (the Neolithic Revolution), settlement organization (“political form”), materials for tool production, and concepts of divinity. With deep scholarly precision, The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History offers fascinating insights into the wider context of the Greek city-state in the ancient world.

Abortion in the Ancient World

Author : K. A. Kapparis
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Abortion in the Ancient World written by K. A. Kapparis and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important new study, Kapparis extrapolates the views of ancient physicians on abortion from a detailed investigation of the medical facts, medical and philosophical theories concerning the human status of the unborn in antiquity, the Hippocratic Oath, and other documents on Greek medical ethics.

The Greek Way of Life

Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Way of Life written by Robert Garland and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Classical Antiquity

Author : Laura K. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118413652
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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A History of Ancient Greece in Its Mediterranean Context

Author : Nancy H. Demand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Greece in Its Mediterranean Context written by Nancy H. Demand and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece

Author : Sue Blundell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415126632
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece written by Sue Blundell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume present a systematic and comprehensive survey of women's role in the religion of the Ancient Greek polis.

Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author : Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292754348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome written by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture. Yet motherhood and acts of mothering have received relatively little focused and sustained attention by modern scholars, who have concentrated almost exclusively on analyzing depictions of ancient women more generally. In this volume, experts from across the humanities present a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, to reveal the multilayered dimensions of motherhood in both Greece and Rome and to confront the fact that not all mothers and acts of mothering can be easily categorized. The authors consider a variety of mothers—from the mythical to the real, from empress to prostitute, and from citizen to foreigner—to expose both the mundane and the ideologically charged lives of mothers in the Classical world. Some essays focus on motherhood as a largely private (emotional, intimate) experience, while others explore the ramifications of public, oftentimes politicized, displays of motherhood. This state-of-the art look at mothers and mothering in the ancient world also takes on a contemporary relevance as the authors join current debates on motherhood and suggest links between the lives of ancient mothers and the diverse, often conflicting roles of women in modern Western society.

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature

Author : David D. Leitao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379342
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature written by David D. Leitao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated as a representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, with its reception in philosophy in the early fourth century, did it also become a way to figure and negotiate the boundary between the sexes. The book considers a number of important moments in the evolution of the image: the masculinist embryological theory of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and other fifth century pre-Socratics; literary representations of the birth of Dionysus; the origin and functions of pregnancy as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy and works of some Sophists; and finally the redeployment of some of these myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's Symposium and Theaetetus.

Maternal Megalomania

Author : Julie Langford
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408473
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Maternal Megalomania written by Julie Langford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.

Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece

Author : Nancy H. Demand
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 : 9781853991707
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece written by Nancy H. Demand and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pharmakon

Author : Michael A. Rinella
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461634016
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Pharmakon written by Michael A. Rinella and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500-336 BCE) and especially the dialogues of the Athenian philosopher Plato (427-347 BCE). Employing a diverse array of materials ranging from literature, philosophy, medicine, botany, pharmacology, religion, magic, and law, Pharmakon fundamentally reframes the conceptual context of how we read and interpret Plato's dialogues. Michael A. Rinella demonstrates how the power and truth claims of philosophy, repeatedly likened to a pharmakon, opposes itself to the cultural authority of a host of other occupations in ancient Greek society who derived their powers from, or likened their authority to, some pharmakon. These included Dionysian and Eleusinian religion, physicians and other healers, magicians and other magic workers, poets, sophists, rhetoricians, as well as others. Accessible to the general reader, yet challenging to the specialist, Pharmakon is a comprehensive examination of the place of drugs in ancient thought that will compel the reader to understand Plato in a new way.

Coming of Age in Ancient Greece

Author : Stephen John Morewitz
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300099606
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age in Ancient Greece written by Stephen John Morewitz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

The Law Code of Gortyn

Author : Ronald F. Willetts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110831139
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Law Code of Gortyn written by Ronald F. Willetts and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hippocratic Recipes

Author : Laurence M. V. Totelin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171541
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Hippocratic Recipes written by Laurence M. V. Totelin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on philological studies, social history and anthropology, this book offers the first extended study of the recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. It examines the links between oral and written traditions in the transmission of ancient pharmacological knowledge.