Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other

The ancient Greek world has been studied primarily through the lives of elite males, leaving the voices of foreigners, the physically impaired, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised silent. This book uses skeletal remains and burial contexts to shed new light on marginalized groups in the Late Archaic and Classical periods, arguing that intersectionality was the driving factor behind social marginalization.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 30 April 2022
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Studies of the ancient Greek world have traditionally focused on the lives of elite males, leaving the voices of foreigners, the physically impaired, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised largely silent. This has made it challenging to create a historical narrative of these marginalized groups. To address this gap, previous research has relied on limited evidence found in literature and material culture to reconstruct societal attitudes toward disenfranchised peoples. However, this book takes a different approach by primarily examining the skeletal remains and burial contexts of the individuals themselves. By drawing upon literary, artistic, material, and biological evidence, it sheds new light on groups of individuals who were typically relegated to the periphery of Greek society in the Late Archaic and Classical periods. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the biological evidence for marginality in the ancient Greek world and argues that intersectionality was the driving factor behind social marginalization in the Late Archaic and Classical Greek world.

Weight: 626g
Dimension: 161 x 241 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474415255