Abstract
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. author also notes how the painting differs from a description of the auction provided in historian George C. Swayne's book Herodotus. 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-Leon Gerome.
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