Women S Libation

Author : Milette Gaifman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300192278

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The Art of Libation in Classical Athens by Milette Gaifman Pdf

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid--water, wine, milk, oil, or honey--was poured from a vessel such as a jug or a bowl onto the ground, an altar, or another surface. Libations were made on occasions like banquets, sacrifices, oath-taking, departures to war, and visitations to tombs, and their iconography provides essential insight into religious and social life in 5th-century BC Athens. Scenes depicting the ritual often involved beholders directly--a statue's gaze might establish the onlooker as a fellow participant, or painted vases could draw parallels between human practices and acts of gods or heroes. Beautifully illustrated with a broad range of examples, including the Caryatids at the Acropolis, the Parthenon Frieze, Attic red-figure pottery, and funerary sculpture, this important book demonstrates the power of Greek art to transcend the boundaries between visual representation and everyday experience.

Author : Merrily Grashin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780735216938

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Women's Libation! by Merrily Grashin Pdf

“Finally, a celebration of strong women and strong cocktails! Lovingly hand-drawn and deliciously punny, Merrily Grashin's collection of enhanced classic cocktails and original artwork is a tribute to women—like Grashin herself—who inspire us to break all the rules.”—Stephanie Danler, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter The perfect mix of punny humor, feminist verve, and practical instruction, Women's Libation! is a cocktail guide for the lady who likes to shake things up (and not just her martinis). In it, Brooklyn-based illustrator and long-time bartender Merrily Grashin toasts the feminist heroes who've come before us and the social movements that have helped shape us, honoring each with a delicious, imaginative cocktail. Beautifully appointed in a paper-over-board package with two-color interiors, each spread features an original illustration for every boozy beverage and a brief reflection on the historical figure, event, or movement in women's history on which the drink is based. With new twists on classic cocktails as well as inventive new libations, Grashin's recipes will educate you as you imbibe, including such gems as: • Joan of Arc & Stormy • Vermouth Bader Ginsberg • Emma Gold-Manhattan • Rosé the Riveter • Simone de Boulevardier • Margaret Sanger-ia Featuring 75 recipes that even the novice bartender can make at home, Women's Libation! is the perfect host gift to share at a party or to give to a feminist friend in need of some cheer.

Author : Kimani S. K. Nehusi
Publisher : UPA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761867111

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Libation by Kimani S. K. Nehusi Pdf

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and significance of libation, developments and change within the ritual, and its distribution in the Afrikan world. Libation is a liquid offering by and behalf of all humanity, those living and those yet-to-be-born, to the Creator, to other divinities, to ancestors, and to the environment. Through this ritual Afrikans affirm and re-establish cosmic balance, interconnection and interdependence: the harmony and balance, connection and interdependency within, between and among humans, the environment, the spirit world, and the Creator. The text connects the practice of libation throughout the prodigious time/space correlation occupied by the Afrikan experience of life, connects Afrikans to their social history, and so to themselves across generations in different spaces and times. The methodology is at once both multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary. The methods and techniques of history, linguistics, cultural studies, literature and other human sciences are deployed to develop a comprehensive reconstruction, description and analysis of a ritual that has long been antique, but has never become antiquated.

Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin,Jean Macintosh Turfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1583 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317219903

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Women in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin,Jean Macintosh Turfa Pdf

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of ancient women. Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient world, gender studies, and women's roles throughout history.

Author : Zainab Bahrani
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780203996096

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Women of Babylon by Zainab Bahrani Pdf

Author : Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 067440369X

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A History of Women in the West by Georges Duby,Michelle Perrot,Pauline Schmitt Pantel Pdf

Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474255097

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Aeschylus: Libation Bearers by C. W. Marshall Pdf

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B290495

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The Tragedies of Aeschylos: Life of Aeschylus. Agamemnon. Choephori, or The libation-pourers. Eumenides by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : Susan Ackerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300141788

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Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel by Susan Ackerman Pdf

A synthetic reconstruction of women’s religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel “This monumental book examines a wealth of data from the Bible, archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography to provide a clear, comprehensive, and compelling analysis of women’s religious lives in preexilic times.”—Carol Meyers, Duke University Throughout the biblical narrative, ancient Israelite religious life is dominated by male actors. When women appear, they are often seen only on the periphery: as tangential, accidental, or passive participants. However, despite their absence from the written record, they were often deeply involved in religious practice and ritual observance. In this new volume, Susan Ackerman presents a comprehensive account of ancient Israelite women’s religious lives and experiences. She examines the various sites of their practice, including household shrines, regional sanctuaries, and national temples; the calendar of religious rituals that women observed on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis; and their special roles in religious settings. Drawing on texts, archaeology, and material culture, and documenting the distinctions between Israelite women’s experiences and those of their male counterparts, Ackerman reconstructs an essential picture of women’s lived religion in ancient Israelite culture.

Author : Mwalimu J. Shujaa,Kenya J. Shujaa
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483346380

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The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America by Mwalimu J. Shujaa,Kenya J. Shujaa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity. FEATURES: A two-volume A-to-Z work, available in a choice of print or electronic formats 350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings 150 figures and photos Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries Signed articles concluding with cross-references

Author : George Anastaplo
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0739107801

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On Trial by George Anastaplo Pdf

Beginning with the serpent in the Garden of Eden and ending with O.J. Simpson, author George Anastaplo offers an exploration of justice and the rule of law through well-known trials both ancient and modern, real and fictional. On Trial is a detailed and fascinating discussion of legal reason, moral judgment, political life, and the events that give them meaning.

Author : Adele Berlin,Marc Zvi Brettler,Michael A. Fishbane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 2226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780195297515

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The Jewish Study Bible by Adele Berlin,Marc Zvi Brettler,Michael A. Fishbane Pdf

The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today. A committee of highly-respected biblical scholars and rabbis from the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism movements produced this modern translation. No knowledge of Hebrew is required for one to make use of this unique volume. The Jewish Study Bible uses The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation. Since its publication, the Jewish Study Bible has become one of the most popular volumes in Oxford's celebrated line of bibles. The quality of scholarship, easy-to-navigate format, and vibrant supplementary features bring the ancient text to life. * Informative essays that address a wide variety of topics relating to Judaism's use and interpretation of the Bible through the ages. * In-text tables, maps, and charts. * Tables of weights and measures. * Verse and chapter differences. * Table of Scriptural Readings. * Glossary of technical terms. * An index to all the study materials. * Full color New Oxford Bible Maps, with index.

Author : Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351709378

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Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion by Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Pdf

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion explores the origin and evolution of the political ideology that has kept women away from centers of political power – from the birth of democracy in ancient Athens to the modern era. In this period of 2500 years, two parallel tracks advanced: while male authority tried to construct an ideology that justified women’s incompatibility with the political organization of the state, women attempted to resist their exclusion and thwart arguments about their inferiority. Although the issue of women’s status has been studied in detail in specific eras, this interdisciplinary collection extends the boundaries of the discussion. Drawing on a wide range of literary and historical sources, including Herodotus’ Histories, Plato’s Laws, María de San José’s Oaxaca Manuscript, and the work of Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and Virginia Woolf, the chapters here reveal the various manifestations of the female-inferiority construct. Such an extensive overview of this historical trajectory promotes a deeper understanding of its causes, permutations, and persistence. Women may have made great gains toward political power, but they continue to encounter invisible barriers, raised by traditional stereotypes, that block their path to success. Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion aims to make these barriers visible, raising awareness about the longevity and tenacity of arguments, the roots of which reach classical antiquity.

Author : Denise Y. Arnold
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822971023

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The Metamorphosis of Heads by Denise Y. Arnold Pdf

Provides a comprehensive ethnography of writing in the Andes, and details the relationship between Andean peoples’ struggle to preserve their indigenous textual forms in the face of Western cirricula, with their struggle for land and power.

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118724972

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Greek Religion by Walter Burkert Pdf

This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation. A clearly structured and readable survey for classical scholars and students, it will also be generally welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system. The text builds up an impressive and coherent picture of the current state of knowledge about the religion of the ancient Greeks.