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Dangerous Gifts - Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle
trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace.
Atreus's wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a
lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced
her. Gifts and exchanges always involve a certain risk in any
culture, but in the ancient Greek imagination, women and gifts
appear to be a particularly deadly combination. This book explores
the role of gender in exchange as represented in ancient Greek
culture, including Homeric epic and tragedy, non-literary texts,
and iconographic and historical evidence of various kinds. Using
extensive insights from anthropological work on marriage, kinship,
and exchange, as well as ethnographic parallels from other
traditional societies, Deborah Lyons probes the gendered division
of labor among both gods and mortals, the role of marriage (and its
failure) in transforming women from objects to agents of exchange,
the equivocal nature of women as exchange-partners, and the
importance of the sister-brother bond in understanding the economic
and social place of women in ancient Greece. Her findings not only
enlarge our understanding of social attitudes and practices in
Greek antiquity but also demonstrate the applicability of
ethnographic techniques and anthropological theory to the study of
ancient societies.
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