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Author_James Redfield
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Caulonia (ancient city)
Charites
Citizenship
Clothing
Courtship
Demosthenes
Dionysus
Dowry
Eleusis
Emblem
Empedocles
Epigram
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Eunomia (goddess)
Euripides
Greece
Gregory Nagy
Herodotus
Hesiod
His Woman
Hyperborea
Iconography
Ideology
Iphigenia
Ixion
Literature
Locri
Locrians
Locris
Ludovisi Throne
Lysistrata
Marcel Detienne
Marshall Sahlins
Metapontum
Moralia
Narrative
Odysseus
Oligarchy
Parthenon
Parthenos (mythology)
Peitho
Peloponnese
Pinax
Poetry
Pottery
Procession
Prostitution
Slavery
Social constructionism
Social order
Technology
The Other Hand
The woman question
Thebes
Theogony
Thucydides
To the Wedding
Trojan War
Urbanization
Wealth
Works and Days
Zaleucus
Product details
- ISBN 9780691116051
- Weight: 822g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
James M. Redfield is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Classics, the Committee on Social Thought, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Nature and Culture in the Iliad".
