The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE

Emma Gooch, Jerome Ruddick (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44281-8 (ISBN)

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Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating ancient identities. The focus of this volume is reflective of broader theoretical and methodological shifts in recent cross-disciplinary explorations of identity. Through the use of case studies, each chapter demonstrates the benefits and crucial need to embrace inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches when investigating life and society in ancient Greece. In particular, this book covers the ever-increasing spectrum of identities across the ancient Greek world, ranging from collective groups, such as women, migrants, children and slaves, to individual figures.

Using archaeological, iconographic and textual material as the basis of each exploration, the contributors seek to understand the intersectional nature of what it meant to be an individual or group within a recognised social identity in ancient Greece. More specifically, this involves the analysis of various types of material culture such as artefacts from burials, excavated settlements, figurines, statuary, painted pottery, small finds and monuments. The contributors study the material using geo-spatial and architectural methods, along with more traditional approaches, such as epigraphy. Among other conclusions, the chapters investigate the experiences of identity – what the experience of having a particular identity was like, as far as we can ascertain – in ancient Greece, as represented by the archaeological material record.

Emma Gooch is an Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in Classics at the University of Newcastle, UK. Jerome Ruddick is a PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Newcastle, UK.

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List of Contributors

Introduction: The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities
Emma Gooch and Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University, UK)

1. Intersectional Dressing: Materialising Identities in the Ancient Greek World
Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part I: Geometric Greece
2. A Paradox of Visibility: Identifying Non-Elites in Early Iron Age Cretan Society
Catharine Judson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)

3. The Construction of Social Identity in Early Iron Age Greek Rich Burials
Min Lin (Cambridge, UK)

Part II: Archaic and Classical Greece
4. The Votive Terracottas in the Identity Mechanisms of the ‘Achaeans’ of Magna Graecia (7th-5thcenturies BC)

5. Identities on the Acropolis of Athens: The Case of the Athenian Heroes
Ioannis Mitsios (University of Athens, Greece)

6. Monumentally Outdated: Aniconic Monuments and their Role in the Projection of the Spartan Image
Matt Thompson (University of Nottingham, UK)

7. The Construction of Officials’ Identity in Fifth Century Athenian Inscribed Administrative Records
Eddie Jones (University of Oxford, UK)

8. A Death Out of Place: Burial, Identity, and Mobility in Greek Archaeology
Camille Reiko Acosta (University of California, USA)

9. The Feminine Semiotics of Dedication at Epizephyrian Locri (6th-3rd centuries BCE): From Pinakes to Votive Epigram
Sherry Lee and Daphne Martin (Princeton University, USA and University of Cambridge, UK)

Part III: The Hellenistic Greek World
10. Bleeding Like a Stuck Pig: Menstruation, Meta-Materiality, and Female Identity in Classical and Hellenistic Corinthian Terracotta Figurines
Leah Wild (University of Cambridge, UK)

11. Domestic Space, Behaviour and Identity: A Contextual Approach
Selin Gür (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Conclusion
Emma Gooch and Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University, UK)

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2025
Reihe/Serie	Debates in Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	72 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-44281-X / 135044281X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-44281-8 / 9781350442818
Zustand	Neuware