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Women in Mycenaean Greece - The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos (Hardcover, New)
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Women in Mycenaean Greece - The Linear B Tablets from Pylos and Knossos (Hardcover, New)
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Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women
in the Linear B tablets from Mycenaean Greece and the only to
collect and compile all the references to women in the documents of
the two best attested sites of Late Bronze Age Greece - Pylos on
the Greek mainland and Knossos on the island of Crete. The book
offers a systematic analysis of women's tasks, holdings, and social
and economic status in the Linear B tablets dating from the 14th
and 13th centuries BCE, identifying how Mycenaean women functioned
in the economic institutions where they were best attested -
production, property control, land tenure, and cult. Analysing all
references to women in the Mycenaean documents, the book focuses on
the ways in which the economic institutions of these Bronze Age
palace states were gendered and effectively extends the framework
for the study of women in Greek antiquity back more than 400 years.
Throughout, the book seeks to establish whether gender practices
were uniform in the Mycenaean states or differed from site to site
and to gauge the relationship of the roles and status of Mycenaean
women to their Archaic and Classical counterparts to test if the
often-proposed theories of a more egalitarian Bronze Age accurately
reflect the textual evidence. The Linear B tablets offer a unique,
if under-utilized, point of entry into women's history in ancient
Greece, documenting nearly 2000 women performing over fifty task
assignments. From their decipherment in 1952 one major gap in the
scholarly record remained: a full accounting of the women who
inhabited the palace states and their tasks, ranks, and economic
contributions. Women in Mycenaean Greece fills that gap recovering
how class, rank, and other social markers created status
hierarchies among women, how women as a group functioned relative
to men, and where different localities conformed or diverged in
their gender practices.
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