The Locrian Maidens : Love and Death in Greek Italy

by: Redfield, J.M.

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Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein. Redfield devotes much of the book to placing Locri within a more general account of Greek culture, particularly with the institution of marriage in relation to private property, sexual identity, and the fate of the soul. He begins by considering the annual practice of sending two maidens from old-world Locris, the putative place of origin of the Italian Locrians, to serve in the temple of Athena at Ilion, finding here some key themes of Locrian culture. He goes on to provide a richly detailed overview of the Italian city; in a set of iconographic essays he suggests that marriage was seen in Locri as a life transformation akin to the eternal bliss hoped for after death. Nothing less than a general reevaluation of classical Greek society in both its political and theological dimensions, The Locrian Maidens is must reading for students and scholars of classics, while remaining accessible and of particular interest to those in women's studies and to anyone seeking a broader understanding of ancient Greece.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1 (14)
PART ONE: Sexual Complementarity
15 (68)
The Sexes in Cosmos and History
17 (10)
Women in Civil Society
27 (30)
The Theology of Consent
57 (26)
PART TWO: The Locrian Maidens at Troy
83 (68)
The Locrian Maidens at Troy
85 (66)
EXCURSUS
151 (50)
On Development
153 (48)
PART THREE: Epizephyrian Locri
201 (108)
Epizephyrian Locri
203 (38)
Locrian Culture: Locri, Locris, Sparta (and Crete)
241 (68)
PART FOUR: Four Iconographic Essays
309 (78)
Nymphs
311 (7)
The Tortoise and the Knucklebone
318 (14)
The Ludovisi and Boston Thrones
332 (14)
The Locrian Pinakes
346 (41)
EPILOGUE
387 (24)
Pythagoras at the Locrian Frontier
389 (22)
Appendix: Ritual Prostitution at Locri 411 (6)
Bibliography 417 (18)
Index 435

The Locrian Maidens : Love and Death in Greek Italy

by: Redfield, J.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780691116051 / 978-0-691-11605-1
• ISBN-03: 0691116059 / 0-691-11605-9
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2003

Price: 75,00 EURO

1 copy in stock