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Abstract: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world. Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more. Emphasizes the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation. Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity. Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity.

Table of Contents:

• Women Outside Athens and Rome. Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives / Lauren Talalay ; 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell ; 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska ; 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikola̐dou ; 4 Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco ; 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal / Vedia Izzet
• The Archaic and Classical Periods. Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James ; 6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods / Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James ; 7 Women and Law / Barbara Levick ; 8 Women and Medicine / Holt Parker ; 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston ; 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases / Kathryn Topper ; 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze / Jenifer Neils ; 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture / A. A. Donohue ; 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee ; 14 Women and Religion in Greece / Eva Stehle ; 15 Women and Roman Religion / Lora L. Holland ; 16 Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd
• Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods. Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines / Sheila Dillon ; Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy / Sharon L. James ; 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods / Anne Bielman ; 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts / Christina A. Salowey ; 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period / Sheila Dillon ; 20 Women and Family in Menander / Cheryl A. Cox ; 21 Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private" / Monika Trümper ; 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney ; 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology / Maryline Parca ; 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts / Laura S. Lieber ; 25 Women, Education, and Philosophy / Marguerite Deslauriers ; 26 Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE / T. Corey Brennan
• The Beginnings of Empire. Case Study V: Vergil's Dido / Sharon L. James ; 27 Women in Augustan Rome / Judith P. Hallett ; 28 Women in Augustan Literature / Alison Keith ; 29 Women on the Bay of Naples / Eve D'Ambra ; 30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman ; 31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs
• From Empire to Christianity. Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn ; 32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature / Rhiannon Ash ; 33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period / Rachel Meyers ; 34 Women in Roman Britain / Lindsay Allason-Jones ; 35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West / Emily A. Hemelrijk ; 36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions / Werner Riess ; 37 Women in Late Antique Egypt / Jennifer Sheridan Moss ; 38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou ; 39 Becoming Christian / Ross S. Kraemer
• Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography.

Contributors:

James, Sharon L.

Dillon, Sheila

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Subjects:

Women — History — To 500

Civilization, Ancient

To 500

Women

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical referenceses.
Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 entries) : 100 images.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1127 .C637 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781782685081 (online)
9781405192842 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2011029133 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

843086811

Other Control Numbers:

slc00232235 (source: CaBNVSL)
wileycwoaw2012 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781782685081