Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture : differential equations / edited by Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joshel, Sandra R. (Sandra Rae), 1947-

Murnaghan, Sheila, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Greece--History--To 500.

Women.

Women--Rome--History--To 500.

Enslaved persons--Greece--History.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Rome--History.

Women and literature--Greece--History.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--Rome--History.

Slavery in literature--History.

Slavery in literature.

Civilization, Classical.

History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Women & slaves in Greco-Roman culture

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

"Women and Slaves in Classical Culture" examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world. The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including the mythical constructions of epic and drama, the love poems of Ovid, the Greek medical writers, Augustine's autobiography, and the archaeological remains of a slave mining camp near Athens. They argue that the distinctions between male and female and servile and free were inextricably connected. This erudite and well-documented book provokes questions about how we can hope to recapture the experience and subjectivity of ancient women and slaves and addresses the ways in which femaleness and servility interacted with other forms of difference, such as class, gender and status.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-276) and index.

ISBN:

0415162297

OCLC:

37625589