Social Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese

The Evidence from Burials

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9382463
AutoresNikolas Dimakis (autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Páginas357
Fecha de publicación2016-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaSocial Identity and Status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialArchaeopress Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv17db2xm
OpenAlexW4236832568
ISBN9781784915070
Open LibraryOL36224011M
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Classical and Hellenistic cemeteries can give us more than descriptions and styles of pottery, art and burial architecture; they can speak of people, societies, social conventions as well as of social distinctions. This book aims to employ and illustrate the unique strengths of burial evidence and its contribution to the understanding of social identity and status in the Classical and Hellenistic Northern Peloponnese. By thoroughly reviewing published burials from the regions of Achaia, Arcadia, the Argolid and Cynouria, Corinthia, Elis and Triphylia, spatial and temporal variations which led to a change in definitions of society and perceptions of community on the basis of shifting reactions to death and the dead are demonstrated. Social roles of men, women, children, elite and non-elite individuals as expressed or negotiated in the mortuary record are explored. Preconceived ideas and stereotypes within and about the Classical and Hellenistic burials are challenged. In spite of the many constraints imposed by the limited previous research, what clearly emerges from this study is the wide degree of variation in what are often loosely termed customary or unappealing Classical and Hellenistic burial practices in the Northern Peloponnese. If death was indeed an occasion or opportunity, then the meaning of this opportunity varied along the shifting dimensions, in time and space, of identity and status

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Geography · Identity (music · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Antiquities · Burial · civilization · Greece · Peloponnesus (greece) · Social life and customs

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