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Spotlighting superb examples of classical Greek art in the context of recent findings in anthropology, social history, psychology, classics, and classical archaeology, Pandora offers a multifaceted look at women in myth, ritual, and daily life in classical Greece.
Written to accompany an international traveling exhibition organized by the Walters Art Gallery, this volume examines the imagery of classical Greek marbles, bronzes, terracottas, and vases in order to understand how women were perceived and how they lived.
Pandora offers a new emphasis on myths dealing with the unmarried maiden and the difficulty of the transition to marriage and motherhood - as exemplified in the stories of Danae, Thetis, Atalanta, and Amymone. Also explored are images of containers and untamed animals as metaphors for women; rituals involving women, such as the wedding and the cult of the Little Bears at Brauron; the character and cult of goddesses; and the close association of women with textiles.
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Exhibitions, Women, Women in art, Mythology, History, Women in mythology, Greek Art, Themes, motives, Women, greece, Women, mythology, Women--history, Women--greece--history--exhibitions, Women--mythology, Women--mythology--greece--exhibitions, Women in art--exhibitions, Women--mythology--exhibitions, Hq1134 .r37 1995, 305.4/074Places
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1995, Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
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"Published on the occasion of ... an exhibition conceived, organized, and circulated by the Walters Art Gallery"--T.p. verso.
Exhibition held at Walters Art Gallery, Nov. 5, 1995-Jan. 7, 1996, at Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 4-Mar. 31, 1996, and at Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Apr. 28-June 23, 1996.
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