Knowledge Commons | Women in Antiquity | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/women-in-antiquity/ Activity feed for the group, Women in Antiquity. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3e16636dacdc6278f12f3b8dffb5c137 Ellie Bennett deposited The 'Queens of the Arabs' During the Neo-Assyrian Period in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859982/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:18:17 -0400 During the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, based in modern Iraq) the annals and royal inscriptions of several kings mention women with a curious title: ‘Queen of the Arabs’. These women have been included in previous discussions regarding Assyrian interaction with the ‘Arabs’, but a full investigation into their roles as rulers…[Read more]

]]> 0 bec73d29473ed8c2fbaefce49cc7e8d1 David Kawalko Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720485/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 02:24:19 -0500 THEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENS

Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]

]]> 0 488a339a7d749fcda5b6efe7ae87771e Ellie Mackin Roberts deposited Weaving for Athena: The Arrhephoroi, Panathenaia, and Mundane Acts as Religious Devotion in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1678364/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:26:01 -0500 This 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]

]]> 0 0f4925db80f7a707dc232de2bd658030 Carol Atack deposited Precarity and Protest: The politics of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1673216/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:35:15 -0500 Reading 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.

]]> 0 3a2a0254e94045d4e79ab95df2b4615d Boban Dedovic deposited "Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld": A centennial survey of scholarship, artifacts, and translations in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670848/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:26:12 -0500 An 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]

]]> 0 bd1a12051fdf4007c8a50537061f7367 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636499/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:29:40 -0400 Article comparing representations of domestic, civic, and imperial violence in novels and in apocryphal acts.

]]> 0 cce32763b1df5ad19352c1dfd2d80f85 Joost Blasweiler uploaded the file: The downfall of Danuhepa, the Tawananna-widow to Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571498/ Wed, 24 May 2017 14:53:32 -0400 0 46727b8e64c02aaedb1b88ed563eda61 Rebecca Kennedy deposited Elite Citizen Women and the Origins of the Hetaira in Classical Athens in the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570099/ Thu, 11 May 2017 01:05:48 -0400 A 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.

]]> 0 03a7940396519221504628ad5cef7f31 Rebecca Kennedy created the group Women in Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1568119/ Mon, 01 May 2017 15:52:06 -0400 0