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A nő a klasszikus ókorban

A nő a klasszikus ókorban

Verena Zinserling
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From the records of an age dominated by masculine values & characterized by the almost continuous exercise of the arts of war, the author has undertaken the task of piecing together the public & private lives of women. The earliest traces are found in the pottery, jewelry, miniature frescoes & statuary of Crete & Mycenae. Representations of Minoan goddess-queens & their courts suggest a status & degree of personal freedom never subsequently equalled in the ancient world. With the ascendancy of Mycenaean civilization woman's role & character changed. The Mycenaean woman comes down to us as a matron schooled to assume her warrior husband's responsibilities during his long absences. Greek sculpture & painting in their serene aspect give us the Greek woman of good family. Idealized in art, cloistered in life, she began to achieve a measure of self-determination only in the late Hellenistic period. The sensual aspect of Greek art is reflected in portrayals of the heterae, the demimondaines of the ancient world. In Roman art we observe the austere Republican matron, personification of familial & civic virtue, decline gradually into the idle slave-holding aristocrat characteristic of the late Empire. The author recounts stories drawn from legend & life: of goddesses, heroines, empresses, poetesses, wives of the famous, mothers, sisters, concubines. She searches out the class ignored by history-the obscure, the dispossessed, the slaves upon whose exploitation the luxuries of the powerful depended. Describing the network of laws & sanctions that deprived women of the means to independent action, Dr Zinserling goes on to explore the social attitudes & family relationships that reinforced legal codes. Finally, she discusses the spheres of activity to which woman was typically confined: home, family, matrimony, child-rearing, religious observance, beauty culture & fashion. Supplementing her analyses with selections from poets, philosophers & statesmen, & with homely descriptions from other contemporary sources, she presents a comprehensive picture. Many of the examples of painting & sculpture she's chosen to illustrate the book are details of larger works-intimate portraits that invite viewers into their subjects' lives.
1. Greece
Crete & Mycenae
The Trojan War & After
Classical Period: Women of Athens
Classical Period: Spartan Life
The Hellenistic Period: A Cosmopolitan Age
The Hetaerae
Fashion & Beauty
2. Rome
Women & the Law
The Roman Woman
Religion & Cult
Heroines in Myth & History
The Empresses
Fashion, Ornament & Cosmetics
Chronology
Comments on Illustrations
Bibliography
Sources of Illustrations
Illustrations
Language
Hungarian
Pages
110
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
CORVINA
Release
September 12, 1973

A nő a klasszikus ókorban

Verena Zinserling
4/5 ( ratings)
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From the records of an age dominated by masculine values & characterized by the almost continuous exercise of the arts of war, the author has undertaken the task of piecing together the public & private lives of women. The earliest traces are found in the pottery, jewelry, miniature frescoes & statuary of Crete & Mycenae. Representations of Minoan goddess-queens & their courts suggest a status & degree of personal freedom never subsequently equalled in the ancient world. With the ascendancy of Mycenaean civilization woman's role & character changed. The Mycenaean woman comes down to us as a matron schooled to assume her warrior husband's responsibilities during his long absences. Greek sculpture & painting in their serene aspect give us the Greek woman of good family. Idealized in art, cloistered in life, she began to achieve a measure of self-determination only in the late Hellenistic period. The sensual aspect of Greek art is reflected in portrayals of the heterae, the demimondaines of the ancient world. In Roman art we observe the austere Republican matron, personification of familial & civic virtue, decline gradually into the idle slave-holding aristocrat characteristic of the late Empire. The author recounts stories drawn from legend & life: of goddesses, heroines, empresses, poetesses, wives of the famous, mothers, sisters, concubines. She searches out the class ignored by history-the obscure, the dispossessed, the slaves upon whose exploitation the luxuries of the powerful depended. Describing the network of laws & sanctions that deprived women of the means to independent action, Dr Zinserling goes on to explore the social attitudes & family relationships that reinforced legal codes. Finally, she discusses the spheres of activity to which woman was typically confined: home, family, matrimony, child-rearing, religious observance, beauty culture & fashion. Supplementing her analyses with selections from poets, philosophers & statesmen, & with homely descriptions from other contemporary sources, she presents a comprehensive picture. Many of the examples of painting & sculpture she's chosen to illustrate the book are details of larger works-intimate portraits that invite viewers into their subjects' lives.
1. Greece
Crete & Mycenae
The Trojan War & After
Classical Period: Women of Athens
Classical Period: Spartan Life
The Hellenistic Period: A Cosmopolitan Age
The Hetaerae
Fashion & Beauty
2. Rome
Women & the Law
The Roman Woman
Religion & Cult
Heroines in Myth & History
The Empresses
Fashion, Ornament & Cosmetics
Chronology
Comments on Illustrations
Bibliography
Sources of Illustrations
Illustrations
Language
Hungarian
Pages
110
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
CORVINA
Release
September 12, 1973

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