https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1513 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1583 The male dominance of Classical Greek society in politics and the arts leaves women normally defined as of little consequence relative to their male contemporaries. In addition, Ancient Greek male authors present women as defining themselves as inconsequential, a point we should question. This paper reviews epigraphic texts written by or for women such as public inscriptions, epitaphs and private messages to the gods. The public texts demonstrate that some women took control of their public image through their public texts. Although private texts take up themes concerned with the traditional role of women as mothers, wives or lovers, they also provide evidence for female agency in addressing these concerns. lun., 02 déc. 2024 16:57:04 +0100 jeu., 19 déc. 2024 18:05:19 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1583 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1506 Female portrait statuary forms a large and important category of evidence for understanding the historical phenomenon of the visual representation and commemoration of women in the public spaces of the Greek city. With its rich body of both epigraphical and sculptural remains, the city of Athens is a particularly fruitful site to undertake such a study. While portraits of women begin to be set up in Athens in the early fourth century B.C., the chronological focus here is the Roman Imperial period, when inscribed bases for statues of women and marble sculpture representing female portrait subjects are the most abundant. I consider epigraphical evidence in the form of inscribed statue bases. The main sculptural evidence comes from the American excavations in the Athenian Agora. While a great deal of important research has focused on the epigraphic evidence, particularly from the Acropolis, this article analyzes and puts into conversation both strands of this extensive corpus of material. jeu., 04 janv. 2024 11:38:45 +0100 jeu., 18 janv. 2024 10:07:51 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1506