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Bronze Age Europe saw the increasing expression of individual and group identity through clothing, hairstyles, and objects of personal ornamentation.

But it’s in the artistic tradition of the civilisations of the Aegean that we most clearly see the emergence of ideals of beauty that we well recognise even today.

So how was female beauty represented? What jewellery and clothing did they wear? How did women enhance and emphasise their beauty?

How were women represented in Minoan and Mycenaean art? And what did beauty mean to the people of Bronze Age Europe?

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Women in Mycenaean Greece Barbara A Olsen: https://amzn.to/40QsDms

Reflections on the Social Status of Mycenaean Women Helene Whittaker
Women in Mycenaean Pictorial Vase Painting Louise Steel
“Little women”: Gender, performance, and gesture in Mycenaean female figurines Louise Steel
Special women and extraordinary creatures Iphiyenia Tournavitou
Women, Children, and the family in Late Aegean Bronze Age Barbara A. Olsen
The Aesthetic Archetype of Female Beauty in the Mycenaean Age Vassiliki Pliatsika
Reflections of Eternal Beauty Constantinos Paschalidis

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Video Chapters

00:00 Ancient Beauty
01:49 Video Partnership
02:54 Interpreting Burials
04:10 Nordic Bronze Age Clothing
04:40 Unetice culture jewellery
05:14 Tumulus culture female identity
06:43 Urnfield culture burial practices
08:10 Ancient Aegean female figurines
09:37 Minoan Snake Goddess figurines
10:46 Women on the Akrotiri frescoes
12:33 Women and Aegean mirrors
15:28 Women in Mycenaean art
17:53 Mycenaean plaster face goddess
19:52 The female aesthetic ideal
20:14 The idealised female role