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A companion to women in the ancient world
Title
A companion to women in the ancient world / edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon.
ISBN
9781444354805
1444354809
9781444355024
1444355023
9781444355000
1444355007
9781444355017
1444355015
9781118380635
1118380630
9781405192842
1405192844
1782685081
9781782685081
1283435691
9781283435697
9786613435699
6613435694
Published
Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 616 pages) : illustrations, maps
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English.
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Summary
Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic TitleAwarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social SciencesA Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient worldExplores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity,
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Blackwell reference online. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Companion to women in the ancient world. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Books / Online
Language
English
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February 09, 2024
Series
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-603) and indexes.
Contents
pt. 1. Women outside Athens and Rome. Case study i : mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives / Lauren Talalay
Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell
Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska
Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikolaidou
Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco
Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet.
pt. 2. Archaic and classical periods. Case study ii : sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James
Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Sharon L. James
Women and law / Barbara Levick
Women and medicine / Holt Parker
Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston
Approaches to reading attic vases / Kathryn Topper
Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Jenifer Neils
Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture / A.A. Donohue
Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee
Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle
Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland
Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd.
pt. 3. Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late Republican periods. Case study iii : Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / Sheila Dillon
Case study iv : domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James
Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Anne Bielman
Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts / Christina A. Salowey
Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Sheila Dillon
Women and family in Menander / Cheryl A. Cox
Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Monika Trumper
Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney
Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology / Maryline Parca
Jewish women : texts and contexts / Laura S. Lieber
Women, education, and philosophy / Marguerite Deslauriers
Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / T. Corey Brennan.
pt. 4. Beginnings of empire. Case study v : Vergil's Dido / Sharon L. James
Women in Augustan Rome / Judith P. Hallett
Women in Augustan literature / Alison Keith
Women on the Bay of Naples / Eve D'Ambra
Early imperial female portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman
Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs.
pt. 5. From empire to Christianity. Case study vi : female portraiture in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn
Women in imperial Roman literature / Rhiannon Ash
Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period / Rachel Meyers
Women in Roman Britain / Lindsay Allason-Jones
Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west / Emily A. Hemelrijk
Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Werner Riess
Women in late antique Egypt / Jennifer Sheridan Moss
Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou
Becoming Christian / Ross. S Kraemer.
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