In the early nineties, under the influence of survey archaeologists and environmental historians, the ancient landscape had become a special focus of ix I did eventually write the article on the epigraphical material, but by then another file drawer had filled and the individual divinities for the second half of the project had narrowed to two: Artemis and Demeter.
The second half would target individual divinities and relate their ritual to the life of the city. The first half of the book would explore the imagery of female rituals in the context of the broader issues of the body. For the female body, the contrast between wet and dry seemed, on the face of it, related to issues of pollution, and given that this was the eighties, it should be no surprise that we both positioned these issues in the context of a project about the body Jack even suggested the title Watery Bodies. This was the late 1980s, when Jack was working on Constraints of Desire and was himself interested in the extended meaning of “slack” and “taut” in ancient discussions that connect behavior with male body type. Jack became more and more interested, and while we slowly made our way through the fries, we outlined a book. As we dipped fries into ketchup, we talked about developing a context deeper than the one normally provided for discussions of ancient ritual practice. We sat down at a deserted table, and over a paper plate piled high with French fries, I sketched out the problems. I replied, “An article on gender and Greek ritual practice.” When I began to describe the collection of epigraphical material in my file drawer, however, he interjected, “That doesn’t sound like an article it sounds like a book!” Our conversation continued as people hurried off to the next sessions and the hall emptied. In the very early stages of this project I ran into Jack Winkler at a convention, and he asked me, as he usually did when our paths crossed, what I was working on. Glossary of Greek Terms Bibliography Index Male Reproductive Anxiety Bodies of Water and Miniature Landscapes Body Parts Sterility and the Crisis of Paternityīorderlands Typologies of Sacred Space Turning Points Boundaries and Combat Epiphany and Crisis The Lay of the Land Unifying Center and BorderlandĪt the Margins The Anger of Artemis The Cycle of Reproduction Inscribing Civic Success The Naked and the Clothed Permanent Press “I Write the Oaths of a Woman in Water” Serving the Gods The Delphic Bee Hebe’s Hens and Herakles’ Roosters “Women, Dogs, and Flies” Body Language and Ritual Gesture Regional Sanctuaries Finding the Center Civic Centrality Ritual Narratives of Centrality and Judicial Success Three Landscapes Using the Land Space and Community Genealogy and Gendered Landscapesĭrawing the Boundaries between Human and Divine Discovering Sacred Space and Creating Ritual Space Mapping the Urban Community Hierarchies of Sacred Space It meets the minimum requirements of ansi /niso z39.48 – 1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper). The paper used in this publication is both acid-free and totally chlorinefree (tcf). Includes bibliographical references and index. Landscapes, gender, and ritual space : the ancient Greek experience / Susan Guettel Cole.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cole, Susan Guettel.
London, England © 2004 by the Regents of the University of California University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space The Ancient Greek Experience The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Associates, which is supported by a major gift from Joan Palevsky. In honor of beloved Virgil- “O degli altri poeti onore e lume.
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