Achaemenid court eunuchs in their Near Eastern context: images in the longue durée

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/1982-02672023v31e34

Palavras-chave:

Império Aquemênida, Império Neoassírio, Eunucos, Gênero, Relevos monumentais

Resumo

This study aims to compare some images of beardless attendants in monumental reliefs from the Achaemenid (c. 550-330 BCE) and Neo-Assyrian (c. 911-612 BCE) empires, which we consider relevant sources for the study of court eunuchs and cultural conceptions about castrati. We argue that such comparisons are possible since eunuchism was a long-standing institution in the Ancient Near East, as shown by several analogies with the Assyrian evidence. We also argue that scholars have downplayed the importance of court eunuchs due to gender/sex assumptions based on Western and modern perspectives that consider eunuchism incompatible with high-ranking social standing. With these theoretical considerations in mind, we finally sketch some possible analytical proposals to explore the images of beardless attendants in Persia and Assyria.

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Biografia do Autor

  • Matheus Treuk Medeiros de Araujo, Universidade de São Paulo

    Grants #2023/01822-6 and #2022/07801-8 from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Visiting Research Fellow at the Sapienza Università di Roma. PhD in Social History (Department of History – Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Social Sciences - University of São Paulo), with a doctoral internship at the École Française de Rome, and a bachelor’s degree in Law (Law School of the University of São Paulo). My thanks go to Davide Nadali, Omar N’Shea, and Marcelo Rede. I also thank Érika Maynart Ramos and my colleagues from the LAOP Research Group at the University of São Paulo. E-mail: matheus.araujo@usp.br

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ARAUJO, Matheus Treuk Medeiros de. Achaemenid court eunuchs in their Near Eastern context: images in the longue durée. Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 31, p. 1–37, 2023. DOI: 10.11606/1982-02672023v31e34. Disponível em: https://www.revistas.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/213749.. Acesso em: 28 abr. 2024.