Female Advisors Between East and West

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19362
dc.contributor.author	Fink Sebastian
dc.contributor.author	Kuciak Jakub
dc.title	Female Advisors Between East and West
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This article discusses the role of female advisors in Mesopotamian and Greek texts. Case studies are devoted to the advisors of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and the female advisors in Herodotus, namely the daughters of Polycrates and Periander and Gorgo. While female advisors played an important role in Greece and Mesopotamia, the comparison revealed that, while in Mesopotamian texts the female advisors are mainly mother figures – whether human or divine –, daughters play an important role in Herodotus.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi orientali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-11-30
dc.dateAccepted	2024-04-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-11-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-776-0/female-advisors-between-east-and-west/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-777-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-776-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ashurbanipal
dc.subject	Female advisors
dc.subject	Gorgo
dc.subject	Herodotus
dc.subject	Periander
dc.subject	Polycrates

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Female Advisors Between East and West

Jakub Kuciak Jagiellonian University, Poland

Sebastian Fink Universität Innsbruck, Österreich

abstract

This article discusses the role of female advisors in Mesopotamian and Greek texts. Case studies are devoted to the advisors of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and the female advisors in Herodotus, namely the daughters of Polycrates and Periander and Gorgo. While female advisors played an important role in Greece and Mesopotamia, the comparison revealed that, while in Mesopotamian texts the female advisors are mainly mother figures – whether human or divine –, daughters play an important role in Herodotus.

Published

Nov. 30, 2023

Accepted

April 3, 2024

Submitted

Nov. 24, 2023

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ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-777-7

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-776-0

Keywords: Polycrates • Gorgo • Ashurbanipal • Herodotus • Periander • Female advisors

Copyright: © 2023 Jakub Kuciak, Sebastian Fink. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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