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IS RED FIGURE THE NEW BLACK? THE IMPRISONMENT OF WOMEN IN CLASSICAL ATHENS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2021

Marcus Folch
Marcus Folch*
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Were women imprisoned in classical Athens? To search for an answer to this question in the secondary literature is to be met with deafening silence. Few scholars have examined evidence for the incarceration of women in the ancient Mediterranean, and the little work that has been done remains focused in such marginal (from the vantage of traditional classics departments) areas as Late Antique studies and early Christianity. When classicists speak of prisoners and prisons, we mean men and the ways men control men.

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II. Incarceration
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Ramus , Volume 50 , Special Issue 1-2: In Terms of Athens , December 2021 , pp. 45 - 67
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