Women and the polis. Public honorific inscriptions for women in the Greek cities from the late classical to the Roman period. Volume 1 / Przemyslaw Siekierka, Krystyna Stebnicka and Aleksander Wolicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siekierka, Przemyslaw, author.

Stebnicka, Krystyna, author.

Wolicki, Aleksander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions, Greek.

Women--Greece--History.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 1239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such honours were bestowed, the phrasing of the texts, character of praiseworthy actions, and the fact that these honours were carved in stone and set up in conspicuous places in cities all reflect what the male part of the city populace thought about women in general and their presence in public spaces in particular. The book is a helpful resource for all those interested in ancient history, social history, and gender studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 Beginnings of Public Honours for Women in the Greek World

Chapter 2 Honours for Women in the Hellenistic Period: New Phenomena in the New World

Chapter 3 Honorific Language: Describing Women, Their Virtues, Merits, and Rewards in the Hellenistic World

Chapter 4 Female Honours and the Evolution of Relations between the City and Family in the Hellenistic Period

Chapter 5 Honours of the Imperial Era

Chapter 6 Women Honoured for Professional Achievements

Corpus of Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women

Attica

Corinthia

Phleiasia

Argolis

Epidauria

Lakonia

Messenia

Arkadia

Elis

Achaia

Megaris

Boiotia

Phokis

Eastern Lokris

Western Lokris

Aitolia

Korkyra

Kephallenia

Thessaly

Epeiros

Macedonia

Thrace

Moesia Inferior

North Shore of the Black Sea

Delos

Rhodos

Lesbos

Telos

Nesos

Anaphe

Thera

Pholegandros

Melos

Kos

Sikinos

Syros

Paros

Tenos

Andros

Chios

Samos

Amorgos

Lemnos

Thasos

Crete

Sicily

Italy

Volume 2

Caria

Ionia

Lydia

Aiolis

Troas

Mysia

Bithynia and Pontus

Galatia

Phrygia

Pisidia

Pamphylia

Lykia

Isauria

Cilicia

Cappadocia

Cyprus

Syria and Iran

Egypt

Cyrenaica

Addenda

Indices

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110641561

3110641569

9783110644289

3110644282

OCLC:

1257324617