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The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE) / edited by Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dirven, Lucinda, editor.
Icks, Martijn, 1981- editor.
Remijsen, S. (Sofie), editor.
Series:
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 468.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 468
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
History, Ancient.
Archaeology, Art and Architecture.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (323 pages)
Edition:
1st edition
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Building on the important work by Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.
Contents:
List of Figures
Introduction
Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen
Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk
1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World
Rolf Strootman
2 Empresses Taking Charge
The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources
Martijn Icks
3 Zenobia versus Mawia
A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World
Lucinda Dirven
4 Image and Reality
The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora
Daniëlle Slootjes
5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis
A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription
Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen
6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere
Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome
Onno M. van Nijf
7 Women on Time
Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt
Sofie Remijsen
8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae
Bacchus' Women in Rome
Emilia Salerno
9 Discourses of a Changing Society
Women's (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War
Lien Foubert
10 Present in Public Lettering
The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor
Evelien J.J. Roels
11 Publicly Luxurious
Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain
Anique Hamelink
12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress
The Women of Dura-Europos
Sanne Klaver
13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia
Marlena Whiting.
Notes:
Description based on PDF version (viewed on March 21, 2023).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Dirven, Lucinda The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)
ISBN:
9789004534513
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004534513 DOI
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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