Barbara A Olsen

Women in Mycenaean Greece

The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book offers a systematic analysis of women's tasks, holdings, and social and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th and 13th centuries BCE, recovering how class, rank, and other social markers created status hierarchies among women, how women as a group functioned relative to men, and where different localities conformed or diverged in their gender practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780415725156
• ISBN-10: 0415725151
• Artikelnr.: 39171776

Autorenporträt

Barbara A. Olsen is Associate Professor of Greek & Roman Studies, and Director of Women's Studies at Vassar College, New York, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Women Of Mycenaean Greece 2. Identifying and Contextualizing Women
in the Tablets 3. Women and Production at Pylos 4. Women And Property
Holdings At Pylos 5. Women at Knossos: Production and Property 6. Women and
Land Tenure at Pylos and Knossos 7. Women And Religion At Knossos And Pylos
8. Conclusions: Women in Aegean Prehistory Appendix A: All Mentions of
Women in the Pylos Tablets Appendix B: All Mentions of Women in the Knossos
Tablets Bibliography