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Dangerous gifts : gender and exchange in ancient Greece /

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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 inv...

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Main Author: Lyons, Deborah J.
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Gifts > Greece > History.
Ceremonial exchange > Greece > History.
Barter > Greece > History.
Sex role > Greece.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Greece > Social life and customs.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780292735545
0292735545
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • LIST of ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE TO THE READER; INTRODUCTION; 1. GENDER and EXCHANGE; 2. MARRIAGE and the CIRCULATION of WOMEN; 3. WOMEN in HOMERIC EXCHANGE; 4. WOMEN and EXCHANGE in the ODYSSEY: From GIFTS to GIVERS; 5. TRAGIC GIFTS; 6. A FAMILY ROMANCE; 7. CONCLUSION: The GENDER of RECIPROCITY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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