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Summary:

This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles developed as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Despite the public lives that some upper-class Greek and Roman women led, they maintained their female identity and respectability. Moreover, the role of women, even of those active in the public sphere, generally remained complementary to that of men. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. -- From publisher's description.

Table of Contents:

• Public occasion and private passion in the lyrics of Sappho of Lesbos / Jane McIntosh Snyder
• Nossis Thēlyglōssos : the private text and the public book / Marilyn B. Skinner
• Marriage and the married woman in Athenian law / Cynthia B. Patterson
• Continuity and change : three case studies in Hippocratic gynecological therapy and theory / Ann Ellis Hanson
• Cultural construct of the female body in classical Greek science / Lesley Dean-Jones
• Women in the Spartan revolutions of the Third Century B.C. / Claude Mossé
• "What's in a name?" : the emergence of a title for royal women in the Hellenistic Period / Elizabeth Carney
• Family behavior of the Roman aristocracy : Second Century B.C.-Third Century A.D. / Mireille Corbier
• Fulvia reconsidered / Diana Delia
• Between public and private : women as historical subjects in Roman art / Natalie Boymel Kampen
• Plancia Magna of Perge : women's roles and status in Roman Asia Minor / Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
• Menstruants and the sacred in Judaism and Christianity / Shaye J.D. Cohen.

Contributors:

Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

Women's history & ancient history

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Women's history and ancient history (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1991 — OCLC Number 654606192)

Subjects:

Women — History — To 500

Women — Greece — History

Women — Rome — History

Women

Womyn

General Notes:

Spine title: Women's history & ancient history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

HQ1127 .W6525 1991eb

ISBNs:

0807819492 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780807819494 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0807843105 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780807843109 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

90024488

OCLC Numbers:

1228044370
22811005 [Invalid]