Antiquity Studies

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Aims & Scope
The series, directed by Lucio Milano, is devoted to the studies of the ancient and late-ancient world. It is intended for hosting both publications arising from the research activities of Ca’ Foscari and publications of Italian and foreign scholars and institutions that help to highlight the academic network of national and international collaborations in the field of Classical. It is divided into four sections: History and Epigraphy; Archeology; Oriental Studies; Philology and Literature.

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Subseries
Archeologia e-ISSN 2610-9344 ISSN 2610-8828
Filologia e letteratura e-ISSN 2610-9352 ISSN 2610-8836
Storia ed epigrafia e-ISSN 2610-8291 ISSN 2610-8801
Studi orientali e-ISSN 2610-9336 ISSN 2610-881X

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  • The Necessary Anomaly
  • Dangerous Women, Ideology of the Polis and Gynecophobia in Athens
  • Marcella Farioli
  • July 18, 2024
  • In Classical Athens, representations of dangerous female figures are innumerable: warriors, filicides, husband-killers, wicked stepmothers, poisoners, seductresses, sorceresses, maidens who refuse marriage, maenads and monsters with female faces pervade theatre, historiography, orations and images. Many of these figures, whose victims are almost always men, are not attested in the sources of the archaic age, or else they appear but their wickedness worsens in the transition to the classical age: a trajectory that is not activated for figures of dangerous men. In the same period, which corresponds to the birth and development of democracy in Athens, philosophy, medicine and biology trace the contours of ‘female nature’ and codify its inferiority and dangerousness on a scientific basis. This study, through a vast corpus of literary, iconographic and epigraphic sources, examines the physiognomy and evolution of around sixty figures of dangerous women drawn from myth, history and pseudo-history, in relation to the contemporary political and social context and the changing forms of marriage, inheritance and dowry. In the face of the tendency in recent studies to obscure the relations of domination between social groups, emphasising the symbolic and identity aspects and culturising the causes, this study aims to focus on the material roots underlying the relations between the sexes and the ideology that sanctions their inequality. The gynophobia aroused by representations of dangerous female figures, who escape their assigned social role, is thus analysed not as an emotion but in its function as an ideological device and naturalisation of social hierarchies in the context of the democratic polis.

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  • Opitergium Necropolis
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli, Maria Cristina Vallicelli
  • May 30, 2023
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  • Libertatis dulcedo
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Franco Luciani, Antonio Pistellato, Francesca Rohr Vio, Alessandra Valentini
  • Feb. 4, 2022
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  • Headscarf and Veiling
  • Roswitha Del Fabbro, Frederick Mario Fales, Hannes D. Galter
  • Aug. 30, 2021
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  • Stolen Heritage
  • Arianna Traviglia, Lucio Milano, Cristina Tonghini, Riccardo Giovanelli
  • March 31, 2021
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  • Altera pars laboris
  • Lorenzo Calvelli, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Alfredo Buonopane
  • Dec. 11, 2019
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  • The Gift of Altino
  • Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Giovanna Gambacurta, Anna Marinetti
  • Dec. 16, 2019
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  • The Soul of Things
  • Marta Mascardi, Margherita Tirelli
  • Nov. 23, 2019
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  • Elites and Culture
  • Filippo Maria Carinci, Edoardo Cavalli
  • July 6, 2019
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  • Before the Excavation
  • Luigi Sperti, Margherita Tirelli, Silvia Cipriano
  • Nov. 20, 2018





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