Enslaved Afterlives: The Ancient Greek Grave Stele of Hegeso (410 - 400 B.C.E) and Its Contemporary Museum Display

dc.contributor.advisorSeaman, Kristen
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Alexis
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-09T22:50:41Z
dc.date.available2024-01-09T22:50:41Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-09
dc.description.abstractThe Grave Stele of Hegeso (410 – 400 B.C.E) is an ancient Greek mistress-maid type funerary stele from Athens that depicts an elite woman attended to by an enslaved attendant. This thesis centers the analysis on the enslaved woman who has been overshadowed in the scholarship and seeks to excavate enslaved experiences. By analyzing the iconography of the grave stele, its placement in the highly traveled Kerameikos Cemetery, and representations of the enslaved in theater, I argue that the enslaved figure draws upon the theatrical trope of the Good Slave to communicate ideology to both enslaved and free viewers. And I argue that modern conceptions of the Grave Stele of Hegeso and the role of slavery in antiquity are shaped by the stele’s display in the modern Greek museum that situates it within the context of the continued absence of slavery in the academic and museological tradition.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29183
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAncient Slaveryen_US
dc.subjectClassical Athensen_US
dc.subjectIconographyen_US
dc.subjectMuseologyen_US
dc.titleEnslaved Afterlives: The Ancient Greek Grave Stele of Hegeso (410 - 400 B.C.E) and Its Contemporary Museum Display
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of the History of Art and Architecture
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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