Women in antiquity : new assessments / edited by Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Hawley, Richard, 1963-

Levick, Barbara.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Women in the Ancient World (1st : 1993 : St. Hilda's College, Oxford)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 500--Historiography--Congresses.

Women.

Women--Greece--Historiography--Congresses.

Women--Rome--Historiography--Congresses.

Civilization, Classical--Historiography--Congresses.

Civilization, Classical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores and expands on scholarly debates on the status and representation women in antiquity; invaluable reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.

Contents:

Prelinaries; Contents; 1 From daily life' to demography'; 2 Ideology and the status of women' in ancient Greece; 3 Approaching women through myth: vital tool or self-delusion?; 4 Signifying difference: the myth of Pandora; 5 The cults of Demeter and Kore; 6 Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens; 7 Women's identity and the family in the classical polis; 8 Some Pythagorean female virtues; 9 Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held Sept. 1-4, 1993 at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-264) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-82890-X

1-134-82891-8

1-280-32055-9

0-585-45323-3

0-203-42855-2

9780203428559

OCLC:

319493711