Women and war in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline, editor, author.

Keith, Alison, editor, author.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and war--Greece--History.

Women and war.

Women and war--Rome--History.

Women--Greece--History.

Women.

War and society.

History.

Women soldiers.

Greece.

Women--Rome--History.

Women soldiers--Greece--History.

Women soldiers--Rome--History.

Greece--History, Military.

History, Military.

Rome--History, Military.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

War and society--Greece--History.

War and society--Rome--History.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

Summary:

The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer's epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca's stoic writings in first-century Rome. considering a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war, this deft volume ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith

Part I. From words to deeds : between genres

War, speech, and the bow are not women's business / Philippe Rousseau

Women and war in the Iliad : rhetorical and ethical implications / Marella Nappi

Teichoskopia : female figures looking on battles / Therese Fuhrer

Women arming men : armor and jewelry / Francois Lissarrague

Woman and war : from the Theban Cycle to Greek tragedy / Louise Bruit

Women after war in Seneca's Troades : a reflection on emotions / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris

Love and war : feminine models, epic roles, and gender identity in Statius' Thebaid / Federica Bessone

Elegiac women and Roman warfare / Alison Keith

Warrior women in Roman epic / Alison Sharrock

Part II. Women and war in historical context : discourse, representation, stakes

War in the feminine in ancient Greece / Pierre Ducrey

To act, not submit : women's attitudes in situations of war in ancient Greece / Stella Georgoudi

Women's wars, censored wars? : a few Greek hypotheses (eighth to fourth centuries BCE) / Pascal Payen

The warrior queens of Caria (fifth to fourth centuries BCE) : archeology, history and historiography / Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet

Fulvia : the representation of an elite Roman woman warrior / Judith Hallett

Women and imperium in Rome : imperial perspectives / Stephane Benoist

The feminine side of war in Claudian's Epics / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer

Index locorum

Index nominum

Index rerum

Index vasorum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-327) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781421417622

1421417626

OCLC:

900194137

Publisher Number:

99965354419