Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxv, 322 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Summary

1. "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"--

Subject

1. Male nude in art
2. Bronze figurines, Prehistoric > Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
3. Votive offerings, Prehistoric > Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
4. Iron age > Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
5. Bronze figurines, Prehistoric
6. Iron age
7. Votive offerings, Prehistoric
8. Nude art
9. Males
10. Mediterranean Region > Aegean Islands

Contents

1. Naked Male Figurines in the EIA Aegean -- Iconographic and Regional Patterns in EIA Bronze Figurines and the History of Ritual Action -- The Lost Wax Method of Production and EIA Bronze Figurines -- Bronze Figurines, Transformative Processes, and Ritual Power -- EIA Nudity and Ritual in Historical Perspective -- Method and Approach in the Archaeology of the EIA Aegean.

Call number

1. JQF 23-552

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Murray, Sarah, author.

Title

1. Male nudity in the Greek Iron Age : representation and ritual context in Aegean societies / Sarah C. Murray, University of Toronto.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Murray, Sarah. Male nudity in the Greek Iron age Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009039079 (DLC) 2021060065

LCCN

1. 2021060064

ISBN

1. 9781316510933 hardcover
2. 131651093X hardcover
3. 9781009018814 paperback
4. 1009018817 paperback
5. 9781009039079 electronic publication
6. 9781009041461 electronic book

Research call number

1. JQF 23-552