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Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age
Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies

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  • Date Published: September 2022
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  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781316510933

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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.

    • Expands the history of Greek ideas and iconographies about nudity back in time several hundred years
    • Considers Early Iron Age art in its ritual and social context and in ethnographic/anthropological perspective
    • Decouples interpretation of Early Iron Age material culture from disciplinary master narratives that see it primarily as a transitional phase
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    • Date Published: September 2022
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781316510933
    • length: 348 pages
    • dimensions: 259 x 180 x 21 mm
    • weight: 0.87kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction
    2. Naked male figurines in the EIA Aegean
    3. Iconographic and regional patterns in EIA bronze figurines and the history of ritual action
    4. The lost wax method of production and EIA bronze figurines
    5. Bronze figurines, transformative processes, and ritual power
    6. EIA nudity and ritual in historical perspective, 225–247
    7. Method and approach in the archaeology of the EIA Aegean.

  • Author

    Sarah C. Murray, University of Toronto
    Sarah Murray is assistant professor of classics at the University of Toronto. An archaeologist of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, she is the author of The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy.

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