A companion to women in the ancient world / edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James, Sharon L.

Dillon, Sheila

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Ancient history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 500.

Women.

History.

Civilization, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 616 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

pt. I. Women outside Athens and Rome. Case study I: The 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 Nikolaïdou

Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco

Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet

pt. II. The Archaic and Classical periods. Case study II: Sex and the single girl: the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James

Women, city, state: theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Madeleine M. Henry and 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

pt. III. Women in a cosmopolitan world: the Hellenistic and late Republic 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 stelai: 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 Trümper

Oikos keeping: women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney

The 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. IV. The 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. V. 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

Appendix: Women in late antiquity (apart from Egypt): a bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: A companion to women in the ancient world.

ISBN:

1444354809

9781444354805

Publisher Number:

99947667028

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Restricted for use by site license.