Resumen de The Politics of Possession: Edwin Long's Babylonian Marriage Market
The article discusses the ways in which the Victorian-era painting "The Babylonian Marriage Market" by artist Edwin Longsden Long critiques ancient Greek historian Herodotus' writing on Babylon's wife auctions. The author also notes how the painting differs from a description of the auction provided in historian George C. Swayne's book "Herodotus." The ways in which the act of marriage is depicted as a form of female slavery in the painting are explored, as well as its similarities to paintings of Asian female slave markets by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
