cannot be related directly to the Niobids in spatial terms. The statuesque posture of these men and women is reminiscent rather of representations of Greek citizens in Hellenistic times. [17] They [...] minimum of space, thus making it virtually impossible to step into them after the burial. Both women and men were buried in the tombs under investigation. An exclusively gender-specific function of the [...] frequently had been decorated with ornaments such as earrings, which apparently were reserved for women, finger rings and wreaths made of paper-thin golden leaves. Widespread grave goods include glass vessels

hypothesis leads to numerous questions: who could be perceived as members of Athenian society? If women were accepted as ‘Athenians’ through their religious participation, what about metics? Who could be [...] 9), perhaps the one carrying the enktesis grant. There is also a vague allusion to Thracian women (l. 15), but the state of the inscription is so fragmentary in this part that I do not dare to venture [...] Lines 4-6 of this decree read that ‘For Athena Nike a priestess being chosen by lot from all Athenian women is to be appointed’. It was a radical democratic decision to elect a priestess by lot from all Athenians

2), he reports an episode of Demeter's myth in order to explain a ritual practised by the megarian women. The episode has to do, again, with the rape of Kore and Demeter's quest of her. When Demeter is searching [...] auten ) when she was wandering in search of her ( hote ten paida zetousa )". And the megarian women, in the age of Pausanias, perform a ritual repeating the Demeter's lament in the same place, characterized

In ihrem Vortrag beschäftigt sich die Referentin mit den anthropomorphen Abbildungen in der steinzeitlichen Felskunst von Alta in Norwegen. Ausgehend von der Annahme, daß diese Abbildungen für die Men

rather than expelled. We see similarities to the account of the Jewish expulsion in the fact that both women are ladies of high standing, tricked by representatives of a foreign court into behaving with indignity