Power, Gender, and Mobility

Riccardo Ginevra is Ricercatore of Historical and General Linguistics at the Department of Classical Philology, Papyrology and Historical Linguistics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He has formerly been a Fellow (2019–2021) and an Associate (2021–2023) at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2020–2021) at the University of Copenhagen. His research mainly deals with topics of Indo-European formulaicity and mythology, with a special focus on the Germanic, Greek, and Indic traditions.Stefan Höfler is a lecturer in Indo-European Studies at the University of Vienna and postdoc fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Vienna in 2017 and has since been a lecturer at Harvard University (2017–2018) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen (2019–2021). His research focuses on Indo-European nominal morphology and morphosyntax.Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, and previously leader of the five-year University of Copenhagen excellence programme Roots of Europe (20082013). She has published in particular about the Classical Armenian language and nominal word formation in Indo-European languages. Janus Bahs Jacquet holds a BA in Chinese and an MA in Indo-European Studies specialising in Celtic languages, both from the University of Copenhagen. Since 2015 he has worked as an editor with Museum Tusculanum Press.

• Stefan Höfler, Riccardo Ginevra, & Birgit Anette OlsenIntroduction. Aspects of Indo-European SocietyPART I: GENDER, POWER, AND LANGUAGEUlla RemmerHow (not) to name a woman in Indo-European. The evidence of female onomastics for the status of women in Indo-European societiesStefan HöflerGender in Indo-European. A synopsisJil SchermutzkiPan, Pu?an, and their matrimonial statusMichael JandaThe charioteer Athena as goddess of warriors. Constellations and their role in the prehistory of Greek religionMichael WeissQuaecumque a Benveniste dicta essent, commenticia essePART II: POWER, MOBILITY, AND CONFLICTPeter Jackson RovaThe Wolf, the Lamb, and the Dog. An Aesopian guide to Indo-European sociologyJosé Luis García RamónOn the prehistory of legal language and procedure. Repairing a misdeed in Proto-Indo-European and Core Indo-EuropeanRiccardo GinevraIndo-European patrons vs. clients, and the role of poets as social brokers. ‘Leaders’ vs. ‘friends’ and intelligent speakers in the mythologies of Scandinavia, India, and RomeRune IversenThe violent Indo-Europeans. Some general thoughts on the martial influence of the Corded Ware on Neolithic societiesPART III: MOBILITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL STRUCTUREMikkel NørtoftAn update on the formation and spread of the Corded Ware culture. Human–canid relations, and its tooth and shell status itemsBirgit Anette OlsenIn-laws and outlaws in Indo-European societies. The master of the house and his circles of interestJan N. BremmerIndo-European initiation. The Greek contributionKim McCone(Proto-)Indo-European age-based male social hierarchies and groupings. Age-grades, sodalities, coevals, age-sets, and the origins of Rome’s curiae (including the curia ‘senate-house’)