RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Public and private
A1 Mantas, Konstantinos
K1 Humanidades
K1 Humanities
K1 Historia Antigua
K1 History, Ancient
AB In this article we will try to give an answer to the question of changes in thevisibility of women in the public sphere. The fact that élite women played amore energetic role in public life firom the late Hellenistic epoch on has beenestablished by our research on the available sources (mostly epigraphical) insome regions of the Greco-Roman East, in particular W. Asia Minor (lonia andCaria) and in Aegean islands such as Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Teños, Syros andParos.Nevertheless, the inscriptions, being brief summaries of the decrees whichwere put in the archives, fail to comment on the issue of the honorand's actualfiílfilment of the office, though sometimes they give indirect information onthe lady's presence, eg in the stadium. But even if the female raagistrates werevisible, did that have any effect on other women? Did the free, or at least thecitizen women in the cities of the Román East enjoy more freedom in theirraovement outside the oikos? Could women move freely in the agora, the theatreor any other public place? And if they did so, what about their mingling withmen and regulations about their clothes and personal behaviour? Literature isimportant on that subject because it provides indirect information on all theaspects of the problem, but the archaising style and subject matter of many literary works, the hallmark of the Second Sophistic, throws doubt on theirrelevance to the era in which our research is located. Notwithstanding thoseproblems, the combination of literary texts and inscriptions sheds some lighton the obscure subject of women's presence in the pubUc sphere.
PB Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Servicio de Publicaciones
YR 2000
FD 2000
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5620
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/5620
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 20-abr-2024