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Women and war in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Alison Keith ; contributors, Stephane Benoist [and fifteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and war--Greece--History.
- Women and war.
- Women and war--Rome--History.
- Women--Greece--History.
- Women.
- Women--Rome--History.
- Women soldiers--Greece--History.
- Women soldiers.
- Greece--History, Military.
- Greece.
- Rome--History, Military.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1763-4
- OCLC:
- 930269906
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