Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age: Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World

by Stephanie Lynn Budin

Book Overview

This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif - known as the kourotrophos - as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Stephanie Lynn Budin argues that, contrary to many current beliefs, the image was not a universal symbol of maternity or a depiction of a mother goddess. In most of the ancient world, kourotrophic iconography was relatively rare in comparison to other images of women and served a number of different symbolic functions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107660327
• ISBN13: 9781107660328
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"