Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-19304-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif - known as the kourotrophos - as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Stephanie Lynn Budin argues that, contrary to many current beliefs, the image was not a universal symbol of maternity or a depiction of a mother goddess. In most of the ancient world, kourotrophic iconography was relatively rare in comparison to other images of women and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to adding strength to magical spells to depicting scenes of daily life. This work provides an in-depth examination of ancient kourotrophoi and engages with a variety of debates that they have spawned, including their role in the rise of patriarchy and what they say about ancient constructions of gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Budin, Stephanie Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Egypt; 3. The Levant and Anatolia; 4. Mesopotamia and Iran; 5. Cyprus; 6. Aegean; 7. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Budin, Stephanie Lynn
Stephanie Lynn Budin teaches at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Cambridge, 2008) and numerous articles on ancient religion and iconography.

Stephanie Lynn Budin teaches at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and numerous articles on ancient religion and iconography.