Afrodita y las reinas: una mirada al poder femenino en la Grecia helenística

  • Mirón Pérez M
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Abstract

Afrodita era la diosa griega del amor, popular sobre todo entre las mujeres, en una sociedad patriarcal donde eran definidas en relación –particularmente en relación sexual– con los hombres. Pero también era expresión simbólica de un poder esencialmente femenino: el poder de seducción. Las reinas del mundo helenístico (ss. III-I a. C.) se asociaron frecuentemente a ella, dentro de una propaganda que resaltaba su carácter de reproductoras dinásticas y benefactoras de la comunidad, presentándose el amor conyugal entre el rey y la reina como garante de la sucesión legítima y de la prosperidad del pueblo. Pero la asociación simbolizaba y enfatizaba asimismo el propio poder de las reinas en el plano público (político), al mismo tiempo que señalaba sus limitaciones como mujeres. | Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, and was especially popular for women, in a patriarchal society was women were defined in relation –particularly sexual– to men. But she was as well expression of a essentially feminine power: the power of seduction. The queens of the Hellenistic world (3th-1st centuries BC) were frequently associated to Aphrodite, as part of a propaganda that emphasized their role as dynastic mothers and wives, and benefactresses for the community. In this way, the conjugal love between king and queen was presented as a guarantee of both rightful succession and people’s prosperity. But this association also symbolized and emphasized the queen’s power in a public (political) level, at they same time it pointed to their limitations as women.

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Mirón Pérez, M. D. (2012). Afrodita y las reinas: una mirada al poder femenino en la Grecia helenística. Feminismo/s, (20), 165–186. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2012.20.09

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