Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was
it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative,
even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model?
This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the
Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek culture, neither
Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and
archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating
account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in
particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein.
Redfield devotes much of the book to placing Locri within a more
general account of Greek culture, particularly with the institution
of marriage in relation to private property, sexual identity, and
the fate of the soul. He begins by considering the annual practice
of sending two maidens from old-world Locris, the putative place of
origin of the Italian Locrians, to serve in the temple of Athena at
Ilion, finding here some key themes of Locrian culture. He goes on
to provide a richly detailed overview of the Italian city; in a set
of iconographic essays he suggests that marriage was seen in Locri
as a life transformation akin to the eternal bliss hoped for after
death.
Nothing less than a general reevaluation of classical Greek
society in both its political and theological dimensions, "The
Locrian Maidens" is must reading for students and scholars of
classics, while remaining accessible and of particular interest to
those in women's studies and to anyone seeking a broader
understanding of ancient Greece.
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