Women's life in Greece and Rome : a source book in translation / [compiled by] Mary R. Lefkowitz & Maureen B. Fant.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-
• Fant, Maureen B.

Language:

• English
• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Women--History--To 500--Sources.
• Women--Rome--History--Sources.
• Women--Greece--History--Sources.
• Women.
• History.
• Greece.

Genre:

• Sources.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2005]

Summary:

This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

Contents:

• Women's voices. Female poets. Sappho ; Corinna ; Praxilla ; Erinna ; Anyte ; Nossis ; Sulpicia ; Claudia Trophime ; Inscribed on the Colossus of Memnon ; Men's words in women's mouths
• Men's opinions. Praise ; Invective
• Philosophers on the role of women
• Legal status in the Greek world. Crete ; Athens ; Amorgos ; Sparta ; Egypt
• Legal status in the Roman world. Early Rome ; The Roman jurists ; Roman Egypt
• Public life. Women's bravery in legend and history ; Political life ; Women's organisations ; Honorific inscriptions ; Victors
• Private life. Correct behaviour ; Education of females ; Intellectual life ; Women and women ; Women and men ; Babies ; Parents and children ; The home ; Celebrations ; Epitaphs
• Occupations. Apprenticeship ; Self-employment ; Prostitution ; Women gladiators ; The arts and entertainment ; Skilled labour ; Sales and services ; Other records of women's employment
• Medicine and anatomy. Philosophers observe nature ; Writings of practising physicians ; Writings on medical matters by laymen ; Case histories from inscriptions ; Female medical practitioners
• Religion. Dionysus/Bacchus ; Hera ; Demeter ; Athena ; Artemis ; Aphrodite ; Asclepius ; Serapis ; Vesta ; Bona Dea ; Witchcraft ; Priestesses ; Christianity ; Late pagan 'saints'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-366) and indexes.

ISBN:

• 0801883091
• 9780801883095
• 0801883105
• 9780801883101

OCLC:

61709179

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