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Mythological childhood: a male preserve? An interpretation of classical Athenian iconography in its socio-historical context1

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Lesley Beaumont
Lesley Beaumont
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British School at Athens
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Abstract

The birth and childhood of the Greek male gods and heroes are themes well documented in classical Athenian art and myth. By contrast, contemporary Athenian iconography and mythology are remarkably empty of references to the birth and infancy of the female heroes and female gods, or alternatively present the newborn goddesses as adult women. This article seeks to shed light on the apparently missing childhood phase of the goddesses and heroines, by examining the evidence of fifth-century Athenian iconography in its socio-historical context. Consequently, in the case of the goddesses, it is proposed that the female child figure represented a state of being incompatible with the nature and manifestation of divinity. It is further suggested that the mythological heroines enter classical Athenian art and myth only once they have attained puberty, because it is at this point that their potential for relations with the male gains significance. And just as was the case with their mortal female counterparts, it is this capacity for interaction with the male sex that makes them of interest to society.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 90 , November 1995 , pp. 339 - 361
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50 British Museum D5 (white-ground): ARV 763.2, 772: Add. 286.

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54 Palagia (n. 24), 36–9. Strabo (xiv. 1. 20) also records at Ephesos a statue group by Skopas which depicted a standing Leto holding a sceptre and accompanied by Ortygia, who carried Leto's children.

55 Berlin F1837: ABV 509, no. 121, 703; Para. 248; Add. 127. Beazley further compares this piece to the scene on an unpublished red-figure skyphos fragment by the Lewis Painter in Reggio Calabria (ARV 973.3 bis).

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59 ARV 604.51.

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62 A. D. Trendall in LIMC ii, Arkas; Schefold (n. 60); Cook (n. 60).

63 On the iconography of Arkas see LIMC ii, Arkas.

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