Dangerous gifts : gender and exchange in ancient Greece

Dangerous gifts : gender and exchange in ancient Greece / by Deborah Lyons.

Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus's wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always inv...

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Main Author: Lyons, Deborah J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2012.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gifts > Greece > History.
Ceremonial exchange > Greece > History.
Barter > Greece > History.
Sex role > Greece.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Barter
Ceremonial exchange
Gifts
Manners and customs
Sex role
Eheschließung
Geschenk
Zeremonie
Geschlechterrolle
Kultur.
Geschlechterbeziehung.
Ehe.
Geschenk.
Sozialer Austausch.
Tausch.
Geschlechterrolle.
Frau.
Ritualer > Grekland > antiken.
Könsroller.
Äktenskap.
Gåvor > historia.
Byteshandel > historia.
Ceremonier.
Greece > Social life and customs.
Greece
Griechenland
Griechenland.
Griechenland (Altertum)
History
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