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This essay reviews “gendered” archaeologies of Minoan and Mycenaean women, to demonstrate that a rigorous and theoretically informed focus on women helps us reweave the fabric of ancient societies at large (cf. Barber 1994; Adovasio et al. 2007).
13 lut 2012 · exaggerated emphasis on the female roles in religion, myth, and ritual; and outdated notions of matriarchy and matrocentrism, which developed in binary opposition to patriarchal paradigms of...
This article looks at two works of art from Minoan Crete -- the Ivory Triad (found in Mycenae but of Minoan manufacture) and a terracotta from Mavrospelio--and argues that both depict not mothers or adult women, but adolescent girls.
To do this, this essay will examine the female stock figures in Minoan art in the hopes of understanding why women were represented in this way. Particularly concentrating on five pieces of artwork.
This article discusses differences in how Minoan and Mycenaean societies portrayed women and their role in childrearing. While both societies' written records indicate women served as primary caregivers, their artistic depictions suggest they valued this role differently.
1. Public female roles. 2 I am hence especially interested in the environment and setting of public female roles. I feel strengthened in this type of quest by the recent work of Alberti10, Chapin11, Kopaka12, Marinatos13, Nikolaidou14, and Rehak15, to mention only a few.
Abstract. This paper discusses how the relationship between women and children is portrayed and under-stood in the societies of the Mycenaean (Greek) mainland and Late Minoan Crete. Child rearing. has been long assumed to be the primary social role of Aegean women. Yet the art of Late Minoan.
