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Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age - 9780521193047
Un libro in lingua di Budin Stephanie Lynn edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2011
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"This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison wtih other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king ofEgypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
- Sottotitolo: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Budin Stephanie Lynn
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Aprile '11
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Bronze age Mediterranean Region Art, Prehistoric Mediterranean Region Sculpture, Prehistoric Mediterranean Region
- ISBN-10: 0521193044
- EAN-13: 9780521193047