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Women in Classical Athens

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This book takes as its starting-point the images of women in the Parthenon sculptures, in order to investigate two levels of feminine experience in Classical Athens, the human and the divine. The inter-play between women's religious prominence and their domestic obscurity is examined in relation to the young citizen women who lead the procession; while the great goddesses represented in the frieze are studies in terms of their relationships with their human worshippers and, on a symbolic level, with the mythological females, such as the Amazons, who appear in the metopes. Finally, the book turns to a third aspect of th e feminine experience, and looks at the women who do not appear in the Parthenon sculptures - the prostitutes, slaves and alien women who made a vital economic and ideological contribution to the Athenian achievement.

148 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1998

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Sue Blundell

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buf, cómo odio l'Antigua Grecia.
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June 1, 2025
La mejor síntesis sobre el tema que existe en español. Se centra, principlamente en el periodo arcaico y clásico, sobretodo, en esprta y atenas, teniendo en cuenta todos los aspectos de la sociedad y la vida cotidiana en los diversos grupos de mujeres que componían la antigua grecia (aristócratas, extranjeras, trabajadoras, etc). Sin embargo, los cápitulos más interesantes son, sin duda, aquellos que analizan el pensamiento más abstracto o simbólico; los mitos, el teatro (la sección más interesante y reveladora), la filosofía etc, que justificaban ideológicamente el trato a las mujeres reales. Inclusive, la autora demuestra como el papel de las mujeres es especialmente esclarecedor para entender muchas de las transformaciones políticas, ecómicas y sociales a escala mayor o consiederadas más rellevantes (el cambio de la filiación tribal a el oikos nuclear a la democracia representativa y como estos dos últimos modelos convivían antitéticamente, conflicto mejor retratado en la tragedia).
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