Rape and marriage: a Gender perspective from violence in the Archaic Greek colonization (c. VIII – VI BC)
Elena Duce Pastor
Greek colonization was a moment for adjusting identities and defining the idea of otherness. Greek colons traveled through the Mediterranean Sea to create a new independent establishment. The majority of them were men because women were attached to the motherland. Colons were unmarried young men who achieved a higher status in the new foundation. Nevertheless, they urgently needed women to arrive to a second generation. Thus, it was not easy sometimes to be accepted by the local population. In this conference, I will study a specific case in the Greek colonization process: the rape of local women to have wives. Analyzing the example of Miletus and the implications of rape and marriage, I will explore Greek mentality and the use of women's bodies for marital purposes and creating family bonds
Female workers: the invisible hands (c. V – IV BC)
Irene Cisneros-Abellán
In this lecture we will highlight how closely intertwined are the concepts of work and poverty in the ancient Greek mindset, and how these ideals affected the average women outside the elite groups. In order to do this, we will establish the main parameters to identify professional and semiprofessional women’s work, the “invisible hands” of family businesses
Endowing poor girls: civic concern and private initiative in Ancient Greece (c. V – III BC)
Aida Fernández Prieto
The dowry is constituted in the Greek world as an apparently indispensable condition for a legitimate marriage to take place. The family's capacity to offer a good dowry depends, to a large extent, on the woman's status in her new home, as well as the possibilities of the family to establish and consolidate networks of power. However, in the case of humble or poorer families, especially in contexts of the death of the head of the household, this dowry could be very limited or not assured at all, which could lead to less advantageous or "illegitimate" unions and, therefore, to fall in socio-economic position. This paper explores the evidence from the Classical to the early Hellenistic period (c. V-III BC) that points to private and public initiatives aimed at providing for the daughters of poorer citizens and alleviating, to some extent, such situations
Organized by: Unai Iriarte Asarta (RCCHU Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University)
Speakers: Elena Duce Pastor (Autonomous University of Madrid); Irene Cisneros-Abellán (University of Zaragoza); Aida Fernández Prieto (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Sponsors: RCCHU; Autonomous University of Madrid; University of Zaragoza; Manchester Metropolitan University
LOCATION:RCCHU Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St. and over Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20230216T190000Z DTEND:20230216T210000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR