Archaeology and Anthropology of Death by Clelia Petracca
by matteo venturini, Giovanna Montevecchi, Anamarija Kurilic, Donato Labate, FEDERICA MARIA RISO, Giulia Pedrucci, Marco Baldi, Valentino Nizzo, Titien Bartette, Gaëlle Granier, Romina Mosticone, Giandomenico Ponticelli, Simona Dalsoglio, Clara Stevanato, Elena Castillo Ramírez, Francesca Lai, Angela Bellia, Clelia Petracca, and Luigi Quattrocchi Forthcoming in V. Nizzo (ed.), Archaeology and Anthropology of Death, Rome 2016
Antropologia e Archeologia dell'Amore by Clelia Petracca
In his Moralia, Plutarch describes a bizarre custom spread among Argive brides connected with a l... more In his Moralia, Plutarch describes a bizarre custom spread among Argive brides connected with a legendary story of female heroism. According to a local law, they wore a beard in the bridal suite to claim their social superiority over their husband, former perioikoi who obtained the citizenship. These masculine and bearded brides remind one of the most unknown aspect of the cult of Aphrodite. Goddess of love, beauty and pleasure, she is born from the contact between sea foam and Uranus' genitals, so she is androgynous by her nature. Several rituals and cults, in fact, underlines her bisexual identity: she is honoured throughout Greece as warrior goddess (like the oriental goddess Astart), she is mentioned in literary sources as τήν θεόν, she is worshipped in Cyprus as Ἀφρόδιτος with feminine bearded statuettes.
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Archaeology and Anthropology of Death by Clelia Petracca
Antropologia e Archeologia dell'Amore by Clelia Petracca