This group is dedicated to sharing scholarship and teaching materials on women in the ancient world–Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Near Eastern, Chinese, Indian, etc.
Ellie Mackin Roberts deposited Weaving for Athena: The Arrhephoroi, Panathenaia, and Mundane Acts as Religious Devotion in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 1 week, 2 days agoThis article examines the young girls aged between seven and eleven year old who are elected to serve in the cult of Athena Polias, patron deity of Athens, in the classical period (roughly 5 th century, BC). I look at the creation of the dress given to Athena at the yearly Panathenaia festival, the creation of which is the main activity of their…[Read more]
Carol Atack deposited Precarity and Protest: The politics of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 months agoReading and performing Aristophanes’ Lysistrata through the work of Judith Butler on performativity and precarity. This paper explores both Aristophanes’ play and the experience of performing and studying it.
Boban Dedovic deposited “Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld”: A centennial survey of scholarship, artifacts, and translations in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 3 months agoAn ancient Sumerian proverb may be read as “good fortune [is embedded in] organisation and wisdom.” The present centennial survey is solely about organizing the last one hundred years of scholarship for a Sumerian afterlife myth named “Inanna’s Descent to the Netherworld.” The initial discovery of artifacts with snippets of the myth can be dated…[Read more]
Philip Harland deposited “‘Do Not Deny Me This Noble Death’: Depictions of Violence in the Greek Novels and Apocryphal Acts.” in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 11 months agoArticle comparing representations of domestic, civic, and imperial violence in novels and in apocryphal acts.
Rebecca Kennedy deposited Elite Citizen Women and the Origins of the Hetaira in Classical Athens in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoA re-assessment of what we know about women known as hetairai in Classical Greece within the context of the elite women from the 6th and early 5th centuries BCE.
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Rebecca Kennedy created the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
