| dc.contributor.author | Hupfloher, Annette | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-26T13:01:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-26T13:01:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.Published | In: Østby, E. (ed.), Ancient Arcadia 2005: 77-91 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 82-91626-25-1 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1105-4204 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/24308 | |
| dc.description | Papers from the third international seminar on Ancient Arcadia,
held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 7-10 May 2002 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A fragment of a life-size relief from Mantineia, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (inv. no. 226), shows a woman with a liver in her hand traditionally interpreted as a priestess or a prophetess. This article maintains that it is an important piece of evidence in discussions of gender roles in ancient Greek society because it depicts a female mantis concerned with the inspection of the entrails of a sacrificial animal. Inscriptions from Larissa and Sparta show that this was not an exception but in all probability a widespread and common practice. Ancient and modern systems of classifying divinitory practices differ significantly. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Norwegian Institute at Athens | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Papers of the Norwegian Institute at Athens | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 8 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright The Norwegian Institute at Athens.
All rights reserved. | |
| dc.subject.other | Oracles | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Divination | en_US |
| dc.title | The Woman Holding a Liver from Mantineia: Female Manteis and Beyond | en_US |
| dc.type | Chapter | en_US |
| dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkeologi: 090::Klassisk arkeologi: 092 | en_US |
