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Body, gender and sexuality in the figuration of women in sympotic scenes painted on Attic pottery

Grant number: 23/04244-3
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research
Effective date (Start): September 01, 2023
Effective date (End): February 29, 2024
Field of knowledge:Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Art Fundamentals and Criticism
Principal Investigator:José Geraldo Costa Grillo
Grantee:José Geraldo Costa Grillo
Host Investigator: Marie-Christine Villanueva Puig
Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
Research place: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques (ANHIMA), France  

Abstract

The objective of this research is to investigate the conceptions of the body, gender and sexuality in figures of women in sympotic scenes in Attic pottery painting, problematized by the Gender Studies approach. Therefore, it verifies how the conceptions of the body in ancient Greece acquired meanings in specific historical, social and cultural contexts, and how they are articulated with gender relations and sexuality in order to understand them within the symbolic system of this civilization. Since ideas about the ancient body are also modern constructs, it deals with the epistemologies that have guided research. The seriation of images from the figures of women allowed the identification of five iconographic schemes: 1. Male-female symposium, in which the woman forms a pair with a male symposiast, reclining or sitting next to him; 2. Symposium of women, composed only of women, represented in a group, in pairs or by just one woman; 3. Erotic symposium, in which the woman has an erotic relationship with a male symposiast, exchanging caresses or copulating from behind or from the front; 4. Musician and dancer woman, where the woman is represented as a flute, lyre and clappers player or dancing; 5. Standing or sitting woman, in which the woman is represented standing or sitting on a stool. The majority opinion of the historiography on the subject is that the women present in the sympotic scenes are prostitutes. In opposition to this understanding, the guiding hypothesis of this research is that these women play ordinary roles of symposiasts at the banquet, equal to those of their male counterparts, in all these iconographic schemes. (AU)

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