Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age - Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies

Breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Naked male figurines in the EIA Aegean; 3. Iconographic and regional patterns in EIA bronze figurines and the history of ritual action; 4. The lost wax method of production and EIA bronze figurines; 5. Bronze figurines, transformative processes, and ritual power; 6. EIA nudity and ritual in historical perspective, 225-247; 7. Method and approach in the archaeology of the EIA Aegean.

About the author

Sarah Murray is assistant professor of classics at the University of Toronto. An archaeologist of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, she is the author of The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy.

Summary

Why and when did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? This book investigates the earliest evidence for nude males in the first-millennium Aegean and reconstructs a new scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah (University of Toronto) Murray, Sarah C Murray, Sarah C. Murray, Sarah C. (University of Toronto) Murray
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781316510933
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51093-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Ancient Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Nudes depicted in art, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient Greek style