The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE

Emma Gooch is an Associate Lecturer and Research Associate in Classics at the University of Newcastle, UK. Jerome Ruddick is a PhD candidate in Classics at the University of Newcastle, UK.

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List of Contributors

Introduction: The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities
Emma Gooch and Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University, UK)

1. Intersectional Dressing: Materialising Identities in the Ancient Greek World
Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part I: Geometric Greece
2. A Paradox of Visibility: Identifying Non-Elites in Early Iron Age Cretan Society
Catharine Judson (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)

3. The Construction of Social Identity in Early Iron Age Greek Rich Burials
Min Lin (Cambridge, UK)

Part II: Archaic and Classical Greece
4. The Votive Terracottas in the Identity Mechanisms of the ‘Achaeans’ of Magna Graecia (7th-5thcenturies BC)

5. Identities on the Acropolis of Athens: The Case of the Athenian Heroes
Ioannis Mitsios (University of Athens, Greece)

6. Monumentally Outdated: Aniconic Monuments and their Role in the Projection of the Spartan Image
Matt Thompson (University of Nottingham, UK)

7. The Construction of Officials’ Identity in Fifth Century Athenian Inscribed Administrative Records
Eddie Jones (University of Oxford, UK)

8. A Death Out of Place: Burial, Identity, and Mobility in Greek Archaeology
Camille Reiko Acosta (University of California, USA)

9. The Feminine Semiotics of Dedication at Epizephyrian Locri (6th-3rd centuries BCE): From Pinakes to Votive Epigram
Sherry Lee and Daphne Martin (Princeton University, USA and University of Cambridge, UK)

Part III: The Hellenistic Greek World
10. Bleeding Like a Stuck Pig: Menstruation, Meta-Materiality, and Female Identity in Classical and Hellenistic Corinthian Terracotta Figurines
Leah Wild (University of Cambridge, UK)

11. Domestic Space, Behaviour and Identity: A Contextual Approach
Selin Gür (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Conclusion
Emma Gooch and Jerome Ruddick (Newcastle University, UK)

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