Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age
Download or Read eBook Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age PDF written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Stephanie Lynn Budin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2011-04-11 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780521193047 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0521193044 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Images of Woman and Child from the Bronze Age by : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Book excerpt: "This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean, focusing on Egypt, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and the Aegean. Rather than being a universal symbol of maternity, or a depiction of a mother goddess, the woman-and-child motif, called by the technical name kourotrophos, was relatively rare in comparison with other images of women in antiquity, and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to giving extra oomph to magical spells"--Provided by publisher.
