Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100}}}700 BC [Paperback]

Explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in Dark Age Greece.This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100700 BC. This study offers a comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society.This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100700 BC. This study offers a comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society.This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100700 BC. Coming between the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces and the creation of Archaic city-states, these four centuries witnessed fundamental cultural developments and political realignments. While previous archaeological research has emphasized class-based aspects of change, this study offers a more comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society. Combining iconographic analysis, gender theory, mortuary analysis, typological study, and object biography, Susan Langdon explores how early figural art was used to mediate critical stages in the life-course of men and women. She shows how an understanding of the artistic and material contexts of social change clarifies the emergence of distinctive gender and class asymmetries that laid the basis for classical Greek society.Introduction; 1. Art made to order; 2. Geometric art comes of age: an archaeology of maturation; 3. Virgin territory: the construction of the maiden; 4. Maiden, interrupted: the art of abduction; 5. The domestication of the warrior; Epilogue: back from the dark. ...bold, innovative, and highly original study...this is a spectacular book...one of thl³Š