Women in Herodotus’ Oracles. A Look beyond the Pythia

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Erga-Logoi Pub Date : 2018-06-14 DOI:10.7358/ERGA-2018-001-SANC

Carmen Sánchez-Mañas

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Women other than the Pythia are excluded from the consultation and reception of oracles, but they are nevertheless present in the oracular passages of Herodotus’ Histories. This paper focuses on the roles that they play in these passages, with the aim of determining the extent of their visibility. To this end, an analysis is conducted on the basis of their belonging or non-belonging to the community of male consultants or recipients of oracles. The examination shows that female presence in Herodotean oracular passages is quantitatively significant, diverse and pivotal in revealing interactions between the domestic and public domains within the communities involved in these passages.

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希罗多德圣谕中的女性。超越Pythia

除了Pythia之外的女性被排除在圣谕的咨询和接受之外，但她们仍然出现在希罗多德历史的圣谕段落中。本文关注的是它们在这些段落中所扮演的角色，目的是确定它们的可见性。为此，根据他们是否属于男性顾问或神谕接受者群体进行了分析。研究表明，希罗多德神谕段落中女性的存在在数量上是重要的、多样的，在揭示这些段落所涉及的社区内家庭和公共领域之间的互动方面至关重要。

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Erga-Logoi Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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0.10

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14 weeks

期刊介绍： Erga-Logoi is a peer-reviewed open-access journal of ancient history, literature, law and culture, as broadly conceived in geographical and chronological terms. Evoking Thucydides'' methodological exordium (although in that context the opposition obviously has a different value), the name of the Journal was chosen to reflect its intention of looking at the ancient world paying attention to both “facts” (historical events, artistic production, material culture) and “words” (literary, historical, legal production in its oral and written forms). On these bases, the Journal embraces a unified approach to the ancient world, rejecting sectional perspectives for an interdisciplinary focus, reflecting these complex articulated civilizations. The Journal, published every six months, is open to contributions of a historical, philological, literary, archaeological, artistic, and legal nature. It is multilingual, thereby aiming to foster the development of international debate on the ancient world and its legacy.