Barbara A. Olsen

Women in Mycenaean Greece (eBook, PDF)

The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317747956
• Artikelnr.: 40831399

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

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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

Rezensionen

"...this book is a valuable examination of an important and understudied issue. Although rich in technical detail, its topic and argument will doubtless appeal to a broad audience of Aegean prehistorians and ancient historians. The project is an important one, and Olsen does an good job pulling together all of the textual evidence, demonstrating how differently Pylian and Knossian women appear in the Linear B tablets, and relating these differences to social practices. We need more studies like these: studies that use the rich Mycenaean textual evidence to contribute to broader debates in Greek history and prehistory."

-Dimitri Nakassis, University of Toronto in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"This book addresses a great need in the study of women in antiquity. Olsen brings together textual analyses from 60 years of scholarship on women in Linear B, and sets them into the broader socio-economic context of Mycenaean Greece and Crete."

- Ruth Palmer, Ohio University, in The Classical Review