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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
Sharon L. James (Edited by), SL James (Author), Sheila Dillon (Edited by)
9781405192842, Wiley
Hardback, published 3 February 2012
656 pages
25.4 x 18 x 3.6 cm, 1.148 kg
"This companion without doubt succeeds in its mission, while advocating for the further inclusion of women in antiquity in both scholarship and teaching." (The Classical Journal, 3 May 2013) "This is a fascinating study, one which will feed into much current thought and discussion, lead to more links being made between periods, between genres and opening up the world of the ancient woman to further scrutiny and understanding, perhaps even more scholarship." (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2012) Named CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2012
"While the scope of topics here is massive and not every subject has been covered, this is an invaluable compilation of great breadth and a valuable resource on an important, complex subject." (Choice, 1 September 2012)
A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes. Illuminating and insightful, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World both challenges preconceived notions and paves the way for new directions in research on women in antiquity.
List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xvi Preface and Acknowledgments xxii Abbreviations xxiii Maps xxvi Introduction 1 PART I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5 Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives 7 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38 4 Women in Homer 54 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66 PART II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79 Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81 6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84 7 Women and Law 96 8 Women and Medicine 107 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece 125 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179 14 Women and Religion in Greece 191 15 Women and Roman Religion 204 16 Women in Magna Graecia 215 PART III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229 Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231 Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263 20 Women and Family in Menander 278 21 Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private" 288 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329 25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343 26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354 PART IV The Beginnings of Empire 367 Case Study V: Vergil's Dido 369 27 Women in Augustan Rome 372 28 Women in Augustan Literature 385 29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400 30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414 31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423 PART V From Empire to Christianity 437 Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439 32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442 33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453 34 Women in Roman Britain 467 35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478 36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491 37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502 38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513 39 Becoming Christian 524 Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539 References 545 Index of Women 605 Subject Index 611
Lauren Talalay
Amy R. Gansell
Kasia Szpakowska
Marianna Nikolaïdou
Cristiana Franco
Vedia Izzet
Sharon L. James
Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James
Barbara Levick
Holt Parker
Maria A. Liston
Kathryn Topper
Jenifer Neils
A. A. Donohue
Mireille M. Lee
Eva Stehle
Lora L. Holland
Gillian Shepherd
Sheila Dillon
Sharon L. James
Anne Bielman
Christina A. Salowey
Sheila Dillon
Cheryl A. Cox
Monika Trümper
Elizabeth D. Carney
Maryline Parca
Laura S. Lieber
Marguerite Deslauriers
T. Corey Brennan
Sharon L. James
Judith P. Hallett
Alison Keith
Eve D'Ambra
Elizabeth Bartman
Christina Riggs
Maura K. Heyn
Rhiannon Ash
Rachel Meyers
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Emily A. Hemelrijk
Werner Riess
Jennifer Sheridan Moss
Ioli Kalavrezou
Ross S. Kraemer
Subject Areas: History [HB]
