Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The use of tattoos in antiquity is a widely extended practice that, in the case of the Thracian people, was believed to be traditionally linked to the feminine element. However, as we will see through both Hellenic and Thracian written sources and iconography, this practice extended to the male element as well, and its function was not to be a symbol of sin committed or anger provoked by the murder of Orpheus. The Thracian tattoo really had a multiple meaning, related not only to social status, but also to beauty but, above all, it was an apparently voluntary practice, not imposed, that the Greeks tried to explain from their own beliefs. towards the barbaric and foreign.
DOI: 10.14795/j.v11i2.988
Author: Arturo SANCHEZ SANZ
Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408832354