Women in Prehistoric Greece

This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence leads to some surprising conclusions. While Minoan-Mycenaean society was probably sex-segregated (Minoan perhaps more so than Mycenaean), there is almost no evidence for love, intimacy, sex, or marriage, but there is good evidence for women participants in some athletic events and the hunt.
John Younger is Professor of Classics and Director of the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies program at the University of Kansas.

This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.

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