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portada The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2003
Language
English
Pages
478
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
0691116059
ISBN13
9780691116051
Edition No.
1
Categories

The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy

James M. Redfield (Author) · Princeton University Press · Hardcover

The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy - James M. Redfield

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Synopsis "The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy "

Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein. Redfield devotes much of the book to placing Locri within a more general account of Greek culture, particularly with the institution of marriage in relation to private property, sexual identity, and the fate of the soul. He begins by considering the annual practice of sending two maidens from old-world Locris, the putative place of origin of the Italian Locrians, to serve in the temple of Athena at Ilion, finding here some key themes of Locrian culture. He goes on to provide a richly detailed overview of the Italian city; in a set of iconographic essays he suggests that marriage was seen in Locri as a life transformation akin to the eternal bliss hoped for after death. Nothing less than a general reevaluation of classical Greek society in both its political and theological dimensions, The Locrian Maidens is must reading for students and scholars of classics, while remaining accessible and of particular interest to those in women's studies and to anyone seeking a broader understanding of ancient Greece.

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