Dangerous Gifts: Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece

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153 Page numbers in italics denote illustrations. INDEX Achilles, 54, 56, 127n.29 —armor of, 37, 126n.26 —invokes aid of Thetis, 59 —offered seven captive women for Briseis by Agamemnon, 117n.61 —and ransom of Hektor’s body, 60, 61, 62, 120n.29 —and reciprocity at Troy, 62 —as trader, 126n.26 —withdraws from battle, 57 Admetos, 36, 88, 132n.23 Adrastos, 30, 60 adultery, 77, 124n.96. See also fidelity; infidelity; theft Aeneas, 64 Aerope, 1, 30, 37, 74, 75, 108 Aeschylus —Agamemnon, 5, 7, 78–82 —Choephoroi, 78–79, 105–106, 107, 133n.32 —Eumenides, 89, 124n.97 —Suppliant Maidens, 85, 88 affines, 88 Against Neaira. See Demosthenic corpus agalmata, 7, 16, 17, 28 —circulation of, 7–8, 30 —crimson-dyed cloth as, 79–80 —“industrial production” of, 29 —pedigreed, 111 —prestige from ability to give, 29 —women as, 7, 114n.4 Agamemnon, 37 —attempts to appease Achilles, 117n.61 —blocks Adrastos’ ransom bid, 60 —compares Chryseis and Klytemnestra , 54–55 —on the fate of Chryseis, 58 —Iphigeneia betrayed by, 107 —murder of, 37, 75 —posthumous warnings to Odysseus, 129n.17 —scepter of, 36–37 —seizes Briseis, 53–55, 56, 59 —takes Klytemnestra as spear-captive, 126n.11 —treads the crimson cloth, 79 Agamemnon. See Aeschylus agency, women’s, 64, 65 —in exchange, 1 —and marital crisis, 8 —in the Odyssey, 5, 72 —and reciprocity, anxiety about, 90 Aias “the Greater” (son of Telemon), 54 Aias “the Lesser” (Lokrian, son of Oileus), 63 Aidos, 97 Aigisthos, 75, 105, 122n.69, 127n.34, 129n.10 Aiolos, incest by children of, 20, 102–103 Akastos, brother of Alkestis, 99 Alkandre, 66 Alkestis, 89, 131n.58 Lyons-final.indb 153 Lyons-final.indb 153 1/31/12 3:20:51 PM 1/31/12 3:20:51 PM DANGEROUS GIFTS 154 Alkibiades, 89–90 Alkinoos, 17, 65–66, 119n.18 Alkmene, 98–99 Alphesiboia, 122n.54 Althaia, 98, 132n.17 Amphiaraos, 1, 30, 120n.41 Amphitryon, 98–99 anaklypteria, 26 —reverse, Penelope’s, 97–98 Anakreon, 118n.1 anangkaios, 88–89 Anchises, 54, 64 Andaman Islanders, dream of marriage avoidance, 101–102 Anderson, Michael, 64 androboulon, 79 Andromache, 26, 57, 122n.65 Anesidora, 42, 123n.85. See also Pandora Anthos, 99–100 anthropology, and colonialism, 114n.8 Antigone, 88, 92–95, 109, 131n.51, 131n.64, 132n.16 Antimachos of Teos, 1 anxiety —about children’s legitimacy, 24 —about reproduction, 39 —about women and exchange, 20, 90 —about women in marriage, 21 —over women’s sexual secrets, 84 Aphrodite, 34–35, 38, 41, 54, 63, 98 apoina, 59, 60 Apollo, 63, 104, 121n.51 —human gestation theory, 89, 94, 124n.97 Apollodoros, 63, 98, 99, 101, 121n.51, 132n.17 Arachne, 120n.27 Arete, Queen, 66, 72, 73, 111, 117n.56, 119n.18, 127n.4, 128n.16 Aristophanes, 125n.117 Aristotle —on female land ownership in Sparta, 21 —on the oikos, 47 —Poetics, 92 —Politics, on self-sufficiency, 51–52 Arkesilaos of Cyrene, 25 arm-bands, shell, 9. See also shell valuables armor —of Achilles, 37, 126n.26 —of Glaukos and Diomedes, exchanged, 14, 61–62, 127n.31 Artemis —Brauronia, textile offerings to, 29, 120n.37 —Peitho, temple of, 98 —as sacred sister, 104 Arthur, Marylin, 103 artisanal vs. domestic production, 50 Astyoche, 69, 70, 75, 96, 127–128n.12, 128n.14 Atalanta, 117n.56 Atchity, Kenneth, 75 Athena, 40, 41, 68, 109, 110, 119n.18, 120n.30, 124n.106, 125n.8 —and the creation of Pandora, 18, 28, 40, 44, 46 —motherless, 94 —patronage of Odysseus, 72, 73 Atreus, 37, 107, 108 autarkeia, 3, 5, 8, 46, 48, 50, 51, 80, 111, 125n.120 balanced reciprocity, 14, 58–59, 62 —and social distance, 126n.25 baptō/baphē, 78–79, 83 Barber, Elizabeth, 75, 119n.16 Baruya (New Guinea) —marriage exchange among, 117n.57 basket, for wool, 32 basketmaking, as women’s work, 14 bee-women, 23, 45, 118n.7 belts, women’s, 26, 119n.19 betrayal —by Astyoche, of her son, 69 —by Eriphyle, of her husband, 10, 31– 33, 69 —of men in exchange for gifts, 5 “Big Man” societies, 9 bilateral descent, Athenian, 11 bilateral inheritance, Athenian, 11, 95 binary thinking, in Greek thought, 49–50 birth family. See natal family Block, Elizabeth, 72 bone, objects in, as men’s work, 14 Lyons-final.indb 154 Lyons-final.indb 154 1/31/12 3:20:51 PM 1/31/12 3:20:51 PM [18.116.63.236] Project MUSE (2024-04...