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Male nudity in the Greek Iron age : representation and ritual context in Aegean societies
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ISBN: 131651093X 1009039075 1009041460 1009041266 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.


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ISBN: 9781009039079 9781316510933 9781009018814 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.

The passage of arms: an archaeological analysis of prehistoric hoards and votive deposits
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Totenbrauchtum in der älteren Bronzezeit auf den dänischen Inseln
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Religiöses Denken in dinglicher und bildlicher Überlieferung Alteuropas aus der Spätbronze- und frühen Eisenzeit (9.-6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Geb.)
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Male nudity in the Greek Iron age : representation and ritual context in Aegean societies
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ISBN: 9781009039079 9781316510933 9781009018814 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek art and culture.


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Das "Opfer" im archäologischen Befund : Studien zu den sog. Bauopfern, kultischen Niederlegungen und Bestattungen in ur- und frühgeschichtlichen Siedlungen Norddeutschlands und Dänemarks
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ISBN: 9783896465146 3896465147 Year: 2007 Publisher: Rahden/Westf. : VML, Verlag Marie Leidorf,


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Du matériel au spirituel : réalités archéologiques et historiques des "dépôts" de la Préhistoire à nos jours : actes des Rencontres, 16-18 octobre 2008, XXIXe Rencontres internationales d'archéologie et d'histoire d'Antibes
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ISBN: 9782904110474 290411047X Year: 2009 Volume: 29 Publisher: Antibes: Association pour la promotion et la diffusion des connaissances archéologiques,

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