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Evan Levine e-mail(Login required)
Edgar Garcia e-mail(Login required)

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Contemporary scholarship on the female dedicatory habit in the archaic Greek world has engaged with this subject as a means to discuss broader social questions regarding the roles of women in this period. This study proposes that current approaches to ancient gender can be strengthened through a critical shift in perspective, achieved through the application of innovative archaeological theory and modern feminist social and literary theory. To support this assertion, two dedications by a certain Telestodike of Paros (CEG 413 and 414) are presented as case studies, through which I argue that hints of an Écriture féminine can be found in the texts of archaic Greek dedicatory and funerary epigrams, through the exhibition of femininity in what is otherwise a seemingly formulaic, masculine genre.

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Epigram, Archaeological Epigraphy, Archaic Greece, Paros, Écriture Féminine, Self-representation

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Evan Levine, 2601 25th St Apt C

48532 Lubbock Texas

Edgar Garcia, 310 Condon Hall Box 353110

98195 Seattle Washington