Thracian Tattoos

July 4, 2017 | Autor: Despoina Tsiafakis | Categoría: Classical Archaeology, Classics, Iconography, The Tattoo, Body Modification Studies, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Aegean Archaeology, Ancient Greek Iconography, Classical Mythology, Body Art, Greek Pottery, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Greek Vases, Thracian Archaeology, Tattoo, Ancient Thrace, History of ancient Thrace, Ancient Greek Mythology, Body Modification, Tattoos, Ancient Tattooing, Attic red-figure vases, archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace, Greeks and indigenous people, Ancient Tattooing & Spirituality, Athenian Vase Painting, Greek vase painting, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Aegean Archaeology, Ancient Greek Iconography, Classical Mythology, Body Art, Greek Pottery, Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Greek Vases, Thracian Archaeology, Tattoo, Ancient Thrace, History of ancient Thrace, Ancient Greek Mythology, Body Modification, Tattoos, Ancient Tattooing, Attic red-figure vases, archaeology of Macedonia and Thrace, Greeks and indigenous people, Ancient Tattooing & Spirituality, Athenian Vase Painting, Greek vase painting

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DIETRICH BOSCHUNG, ALAN SHAPIRO AND FRANK WASCHECK ( EDS. )

BODIES IN TRANSITION Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge

MORPHOMATA

This volume engages from the perspective of the ancient Mediterranean world with current debates in the field of cultural studies revolving around the idea of embodied knowledge. In particular, it deals with the dissolution of the concept of the ideal body as a repository of knowledge through instances of deformation or hybridization. The starting point comprises a series of case studies of less than perfect bodies: bodies that are misshapen, stigmatized, fragmented, as well as hybrid human/ animal creatures, transgendered persons, and bodies on the cultural periphery of the classical world. All of these examples represent deviations from the ‘normal’ order of things and evoke familiar feelings of alienation. The ordered knowledge that has shaped the body is subverted and falls into disorder. One strategy for dealing with this is to canonize transgression in visual form. Fluid bodies are captured in the image and domesticated, creating a visual order in KPZVYKLY;OLIVK`HZY\PUPZHÉ_LKÉN\YLVMÈ\PKP[` and thus especially receptive to attributions of meaning, which helps explain its persistence as a cultural trope. It allows for the observation of cultural change.

BOSCHUNG, SHAPIRO, WASCHECK ( EDS. ) — BODIES IN TRANSITION

MORPHOMATA EDITED BY GÜNTER BLAMBERGER AND DIETRICH BOSCHUNG VOLUME 23

EDITED BY DIETRICH BOSCHUNG, ALAN SHAPIRO AND FRANK WASCHECK

BODIES IN TRANSITION Dissolving the Boundaries of Embodied Knowledge

WILHELM FINK

unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01UK0905. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt der Veröffentlichung liegt bei den Autoren. Bibliografische Informationen der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek: Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte Daten sind im Internet über www.dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar. Alle Rechte, auch die des auszugsweisen Nachdrucks, der fotomechanischen Wiedergabe und der Übersetzung vorbehalten. Dies betrifft auch die Vervielfältigung und Übertragung einzelner Textabschnitte, Zeichnungen oder Bilder durch alle Verfahren wie Speicherung und Übertragung auf Papier, Transparente, Filme, Bänder, Platten und andere Medien, soweit es nicht § 53 und 54 UrhG ausdrücklich gestatten. © 2015 Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn Wilhelm Fink GmbH & Co. Verlags-KG, Jühenplatz 1, D-33098 Paderborn Internet: www.fink.de Lektorat: Torsten Zimmer, Alan Shapiro, Thierry Greub Gestaltung und Satz: Kathrin Roussel, Sichtvermerk Printed in Germany Herstellung: Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co. KG, Paderborn ISBN 978 -3 -7705 - 5808 - 7

CONTENT Preface

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Introduction by Alan Shapiro

9

FRANÇOIS LISSARRAGUE Corps à corps: épisèmes anthropomorphiques dans la céramique attique

11

ERIC R. VARNER Fluidity and Fluctuation: the Shifting Dynamics of Condemnation in Roman Imperial Portraits

33

DESPOINA TSIAFAKIS Thracian Tattoos

89

HANS BERNSDORFF Schmerz und Bestrafung in der hellenistischen ‚Tätowierelegie‘

119

JAN N. BREMMER Stigmata: From Tattoos to Saints’ Marks

137

VÉRONIQUE DASEN Body Marks—Birthmarks. Body Divination in Ancient Literature and Iconography

153

MARCELLO BARBANERA The Lame God: Ambiguities of Hephaistos in the Greek Mythical Realm

177

LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES “That My Body is Strong”: The Physique and Appearance of Achaemenid Monarchy

211

HELEN KING Between Male and Female in Ancient Medicine

249

JAN N. BREMMER A Transsexual in Archaic Greece: The Case of Kaineus

265

ALAN SHAPIRO Alkibiades’ Effeminacy and the Androgyny of Dionysos

287

ANNETTA ALEXANDRIDIS Ζῷα: Bilder des Körpers zwischen Mensch und Tier im Mythos von Aktaion

313

Contributors

350

Plates

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DES POINA TS IA F AK IS

THRACIAN TATTOOS

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AB STRAC T The employment of the tattooing to mark various parts of the human body, is a ‘custom’ that appears throughout the centuries in numerous regions and cultures. Through the existing examples it is pointed out that it was very popular among the ancient Thracians. Either as a sign of nobility for the men of Thrace, or as a mark of punishment on the Thracian women for the death of Orpheus, the Thracian tattoo is testified through the literary sources and the iconography. Focus of this paper is to explore the visual and written information regarding the Thracian ‘custom’ of tattooing and to investigate its symbolism and meanings. In order to do that within the right context, it is provided some brief general information on tattooing and an introduction to the Thracian people and their habits. The Thracian tattoos are approached through the ancient Greek view and they appear to be signs and symbols of various and different status.

A. I NT RO DUCT IO N An interesting and exotic people who lived in the periphery of the Greek world, the Thracians2HSS\YLKHUKH[[YHJ[LK[OL.YLLRZOPZ[VYPHUZWVL[Z HY[PZ[ZL[J[OYV\NO[OLPY^HYSPRLJOHYHJ[LYPZ[PJZHUKILOH]PVYZHZ^LSSHZ 1 I would like to thank Prof. H.A. Shapiro, Dr. Frank Wascheck and Prof. D. Boschung for their invitation to participate in this conference and their hospitality. 2 For Thrace and Thracians see Tsiafaki 1998, 19–40; Archibald 1998; Tsiafakis 2000, 364–379; Tsiafakis 2002, 365–369; Marazov 2005; Tsiafaki 2009, 123–134.

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