Erika Weiberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 261349 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Erika Weiberg |
| NOMBRES | Erika |
| APELLIDO | Weiberg |
| FIRMA | WEIBERG E |
| AFILIACIONES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6583-387X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Demanding Witness
Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, and Euripides’ Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, this book examines how and why female characters’ expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and sup…
Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean
Human-environment dynamics in past societies has been a major field of research in the Mediterranean for a long time, but has grown significantly following the increase in the number and quality of palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental records in the last two decades. Here we sketch the outline of this field of research based on 1,531 author keywords from 280 peer-reviewed articles published in 78 different scientific journals during 2016–2021. S…
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Nostos plays such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae can be productively read within the context of the fifth-century Athenian home front. Focusing on wives’ receipt of false reports about their husbands in Agamemnon and Trachiniae, this article argues that Clytemnestra’s and Deianeira’s tense interactions with messengers both register Athenian wives’ anxieties about receiving untrustworthy information during their husbands’ absenc…
Land use, climate change and 'boom-bust' sequences in agricultural landscapes
We show that long-term and comparative studies are imperative if we are to identify the interlinkage between land use and climate and understand how vulnerabilities build over time and ultimately decide the societal outcomes of climate change. Using a long-term perspective, we study changes in both the extent and intensity of land use in NE Peloponnese, Greece, across more than two thousand years, from the end of the Middle Bronze Age to Roman ti…
Tectius illa cupit
The topic of female pleasure is frequently suppressed in Ovid's Ars amatoria. Yet because pleasure is an unavoidable subject for a teacher who professes techniques of love, the moments in which this topic is broached are marked by a rupture in the teacher's logic or by an overt redirection of the course of his teaching, an overt covering up of female desire and pleasure at the very moment it appears. Drawing on the works of French feminist theori…
The Bed and the Tomb
Building on recent work on the materiality of props in Greek tragedy, this article focuses attention on Proteus’ tomb in Euripides’ Helen as a potent stage property that becomes central to the play’s developing discourse of recognition tokens. Analyzing the play’s allusions to Odyssey 23, this article argues that Helen raises expectations of a bed as sign in the recognition scene between Helen and Menelaus, an expectation that the recognition sce…
Learning to bear witness
Drawing on trauma theory and writings about the Holocaust, this chapter argues that Sophocles’ Trachiniae is attuned to the complexities not just of surviving trauma, but also of bearing witness to it. Three levels of bearing witness to trauma can be identified in this play. The first concerns Deianeira’s ability to bear witness to herself within her experience of trauma. The second is exemplified by Deianeira’s wider community, the Chorus of you…
Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece
In this study, we present a modeling approach that investigates how much cultivable land was required to supply a society and whether societies were in need when environmental conditions deteriorated. The approach is implemented for the North-Eastern Peloponnese and is based upon the location of Late Helladic IIIB (1300–1200 BCE) archaeological sites, an assessment of their sizes, and a proposed diet of the people. Based on these information, the…
Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece
This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Results from summed probability densities (SPD) of archaeological radiocarbon dates and settlement numbers derived from archaeological site surveys are combined with results from cluster-based analysis of published pollen core assemblages to offer an integrated view of human pressure on the Gree…
Examining Land-Use through GIS-Based Kernel Density Estimation
The use of archaeological survey data for evaluation of landscape dynamics has commonly been concerned with the distribution of settlements and changes in number of recorded sites over time. Here we present a new quantitative approach to survey-based legacy data, which allows further assessments of the spatial configuration of possible land-use areas. Utilizing data from an intensive archaeological survey in the Berbati-Limnes area, Greece, we de…
Ruins
Reviewed by: Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory by Odai Johnson Erika L. Weiberg Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory. By Odai Johnson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 358. In this ambitious book, Odai Johnson brings questions and methods familiar from his earlier work on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American theatre to bear on the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. In a series of ten case studies that stretch…
The Writing on the Mind
Drawing on modern trauma research and trauma theory, this article argues that Sophocles' Trachiniae dramatizes the psychological wounds of a victim of sexual assault. Through analyses of Deianeira's stories about her past, this article highlights a female perspective on trauma and its disastrous consequences for the victim and her community
Resilience and persistence of ancient societies in the face of climate change
Instances of resilience and persistence in ancient societies during periods of climate stress are necessary as counter weights to simplified collapse archaeology. The authors offer an evaluation of societal trajectories during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Peloponnese against the backdrop of recently available local climate data. By considering climate volatility as well as climate change, the long-term perspective suggests that the end of the…
Contrasting Histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean
Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc, leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete. I…
Realising consilience
This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there ar…
The Early Helladic II–III Transition at Lerna and Tiryns Revisited
study of the archaeology, art, history, philosophy, language, and literature of Greece
Mind or Matter? People-Environment Interactions and the Demise of Early Helladic II Society in the Northeastern Peloponnese
The centuries surrounding 2200 B.C.E. (the year commonly used to mark the transition between the second and third phases of the Early Bronze Age) were transformative times in the Aegean. At some locations, development continued and accelerated; in many places, however, several societal characteristics and supraregional traits seem to have been abandoned. Life continued through these changes, but it appears to have been altered and simplified. In …
Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years – A review
Pictures and people
[This contribution is only available in print.] The point of departure for this paper is the publication of two Early Helladic sealing fragments from the coastal settlement of Asine on the north-east Peloponnese in Greece. After an initial description and discussion they are set in the context of sealing custom established on the Greek mainland around 2500 BCE. In the first part of the paper focus is on the apparent qualitative differences betwee…
Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece
This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Results from summed probability densities (SPD) of archaeological radiocarbon dates and settlement numbers derived from archaeological site surveys are combined with results from cluster-based analysis of published pollen core assemblages to offer an integrated view of human pressure on the Gree…
Resilience and persistence of ancient societies in the face of climate change
Instances of resilience and persistence in ancient societies during periods of climate stress are necessary as counter weights to simplified collapse archaeology. The authors offer an evaluation of societal trajectories during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Peloponnese against the backdrop of recently available local climate data. By considering climate volatility as well as climate change, the long-term perspective suggests that the end of the…
Mind or Matter? People-Environment Interactions and the Demise of Early Helladic II Society in the Northeastern Peloponnese
The centuries surrounding 2200 B.C.E. (the year commonly used to mark the transition between the second and third phases of the Early Bronze Age) were transformative times in the Aegean. At some locations, development continued and accelerated; in many places, however, several societal characteristics and supraregional traits seem to have been abandoned. Life continued through these changes, but it appears to have been altered and simplified. In …
Examining Land-Use through GIS-Based Kernel Density Estimation
The use of archaeological survey data for evaluation of landscape dynamics has commonly been concerned with the distribution of settlements and changes in number of recorded sites over time. Here we present a new quantitative approach to survey-based legacy data, which allows further assessments of the spatial configuration of possible land-use areas. Utilizing data from an intensive archaeological survey in the Berbati-Limnes area, Greece, we de…
Land use, climate change and 'boom-bust' sequences in agricultural landscapes
We show that long-term and comparative studies are imperative if we are to identify the interlinkage between land use and climate and understand how vulnerabilities build over time and ultimately decide the societal outcomes of climate change. Using a long-term perspective, we study changes in both the extent and intensity of land use in NE Peloponnese, Greece, across more than two thousand years, from the end of the Middle Bronze Age to Roman ti…
The Early Helladic II–III Transition at Lerna and Tiryns Revisited
study of the archaeology, art, history, philosophy, language, and literature of Greece
Contrasting Histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean
Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc, leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete. I…
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Nostos plays such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae can be productively read within the context of the fifth-century Athenian home front. Focusing on wives’ receipt of false reports about their husbands in Agamemnon and Trachiniae, this article argues that Clytemnestra’s and Deianeira’s tense interactions with messengers both register Athenian wives’ anxieties about receiving untrustworthy information during their husbands’ absenc…
Pictures and people
[This contribution is only available in print.] The point of departure for this paper is the publication of two Early Helladic sealing fragments from the coastal settlement of Asine on the north-east Peloponnese in Greece. After an initial description and discussion they are set in the context of sealing custom established on the Greek mainland around 2500 BCE. In the first part of the paper focus is on the apparent qualitative differences betwee…
Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years – A review
Mind or Matter? People-Environment Interactions and the Demise of Early Helladic II Society in the Northeastern Peloponnese
The centuries surrounding 2200 B.C.E. (the year commonly used to mark the transition between the second and third phases of the Early Bronze Age) were transformative times in the Aegean. At some locations, development continued and accelerated; in many places, however, several societal characteristics and supraregional traits seem to have been abandoned. Life continued through these changes, but it appears to have been altered and simplified. In …
The Early Helladic II–III Transition at Lerna and Tiryns Revisited
study of the archaeology, art, history, philosophy, language, and literature of Greece
Realising consilience
This paper reviews the methodological and practical issues relevant to the ways in which natural scientists, historians and archaeologists may collaborate in the study of past climatic changes in the Mediterranean basin. We begin by discussing the methodologies of these three disciplines in the context of the consilience debate, that is, attempts to unify different research methodologies that address similar problems. We demonstrate that there ar…
Contrasting Histories in Early Bronze Age Aegean
Late Early Bronze Age (EB IIB–III, 2500–2000 bc) evidence from the northeast Peloponnese and central Crete present two coeval sequences of events with very different societal outcomes. By drawing on resilience theory and the model of adaptive cycles, this article explores when and why the paths of mainland Greece and Crete diverged around 2200 bc, leading to an eventually destabilizing change on the mainland and a more sustainable one on Crete. I…
The Writing on the Mind
Drawing on modern trauma research and trauma theory, this article argues that Sophocles' Trachiniae dramatizes the psychological wounds of a victim of sexual assault. Through analyses of Deianeira's stories about her past, this article highlights a female perspective on trauma and its disastrous consequences for the victim and her community
Resilience and persistence of ancient societies in the face of climate change
Instances of resilience and persistence in ancient societies during periods of climate stress are necessary as counter weights to simplified collapse archaeology. The authors offer an evaluation of societal trajectories during the Late Bronze Age (LBA) in the Peloponnese against the backdrop of recently available local climate data. By considering climate volatility as well as climate change, the long-term perspective suggests that the end of the…
Learning to bear witness
Drawing on trauma theory and writings about the Holocaust, this chapter argues that Sophocles’ Trachiniae is attuned to the complexities not just of surviving trauma, but also of bearing witness to it. Three levels of bearing witness to trauma can be identified in this play. The first concerns Deianeira’s ability to bear witness to herself within her experience of trauma. The second is exemplified by Deianeira’s wider community, the Chorus of you…
Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece
In this study, we present a modeling approach that investigates how much cultivable land was required to supply a society and whether societies were in need when environmental conditions deteriorated. The approach is implemented for the North-Eastern Peloponnese and is based upon the location of Late Helladic IIIB (1300–1200 BCE) archaeological sites, an assessment of their sizes, and a proposed diet of the people. Based on these information, the…
Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece
This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Results from summed probability densities (SPD) of archaeological radiocarbon dates and settlement numbers derived from archaeological site surveys are combined with results from cluster-based analysis of published pollen core assemblages to offer an integrated view of human pressure on the Gree…
Examining Land-Use through GIS-Based Kernel Density Estimation
The use of archaeological survey data for evaluation of landscape dynamics has commonly been concerned with the distribution of settlements and changes in number of recorded sites over time. Here we present a new quantitative approach to survey-based legacy data, which allows further assessments of the spatial configuration of possible land-use areas. Utilizing data from an intensive archaeological survey in the Berbati-Limnes area, Greece, we de…
Ruins
Reviewed by: Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory by Odai Johnson Erika L. Weiberg Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory. By Odai Johnson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 358. In this ambitious book, Odai Johnson brings questions and methods familiar from his earlier work on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American theatre to bear on the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. In a series of ten case studies that stretch…
Tectius illa cupit
The topic of female pleasure is frequently suppressed in Ovid's Ars amatoria. Yet because pleasure is an unavoidable subject for a teacher who professes techniques of love, the moments in which this topic is broached are marked by a rupture in the teacher's logic or by an overt redirection of the course of his teaching, an overt covering up of female desire and pleasure at the very moment it appears. Drawing on the works of French feminist theori…
The Bed and the Tomb
Building on recent work on the materiality of props in Greek tragedy, this article focuses attention on Proteus’ tomb in Euripides’ Helen as a potent stage property that becomes central to the play’s developing discourse of recognition tokens. Analyzing the play’s allusions to Odyssey 23, this article argues that Helen raises expectations of a bed as sign in the recognition scene between Helen and Menelaus, an expectation that the recognition sce…
Land use, climate change and 'boom-bust' sequences in agricultural landscapes
We show that long-term and comparative studies are imperative if we are to identify the interlinkage between land use and climate and understand how vulnerabilities build over time and ultimately decide the societal outcomes of climate change. Using a long-term perspective, we study changes in both the extent and intensity of land use in NE Peloponnese, Greece, across more than two thousand years, from the end of the Middle Bronze Age to Roman ti…
Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean
Human-environment dynamics in past societies has been a major field of research in the Mediterranean for a long time, but has grown significantly following the increase in the number and quality of palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental records in the last two decades. Here we sketch the outline of this field of research based on 1,531 author keywords from 280 peer-reviewed articles published in 78 different scientific journals during 2016–2021. S…
False Reports and Waiting Wives on the Home Front in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae
Nostos plays such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae can be productively read within the context of the fifth-century Athenian home front. Focusing on wives’ receipt of false reports about their husbands in Agamemnon and Trachiniae, this article argues that Clytemnestra’s and Deianeira’s tense interactions with messengers both register Athenian wives’ anxieties about receiving untrustworthy information during their husbands’ absenc…
Demanding Witness
Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Women of Trachis, and Euripides’ Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, this book examines how and why female characters’ expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and sup…
Archaeology (13 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · History (11 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 obras) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 obras) · Aesthetics (6 obras) · Bronze Age (6 obras) · Climate change (5 obras)