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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A companion to women in the ancient world
  • Contains: pt. 1.Women outside Athens and Rome.Case study i :mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives / Lauren Talalay
    pt. 2.Archaic and classical periods.Case study ii :sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James
    pt. 3.Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late Republican periods.Case study iii :Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / Sheila Dillon
    pt. 4.Beginnings of empire.Case study v :Vergil's Dido / Sharon L. James
    pt. 5.From empire to Christianity.Case study vi :female portraiture in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn
    Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell
    Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska
    Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikolaidou
    Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco
    Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet.
    Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Sharon L. James
    Women and law / Barbara Levick
    Women and medicine / Holt Parker
    Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston
    Approaches to reading attic vases / Kathryn Topper
    Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Jenifer Neils
    Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture / A.A. Donohue
    Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee
    Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle
    Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland
    Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd.
    Case study iv :domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James
    Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Anne Bielman
    Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts / Christina A. Salowey
    Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Sheila Dillon
    Women and family in Menander / Cheryl A. Cox
    Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Monika Trumper
    Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney
    Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology / Maryline Parca
    Jewish women : texts and contexts / Laura S. Lieber
    Women, education, and philosophy / Marguerite Deslauriers
    Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / T. Corey Brennan.
    Women in Augustan Rome / Judith P. Hallett
    Women in Augustan literature / Alison Keith
    Women on the Bay of Naples / Eve D'Ambra
    Early imperial female portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman
    Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs.
    Women in imperial Roman literature / Rhiannon Ash
    Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period / Rachel Meyers
    Women in Roman Britain / Lindsay Allason-Jones
    Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west / Emily A. Hemelrijk
    Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Werner Riess
    Women in late antique Egypt / Jennifer Sheridan Moss
    Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou
    Becoming Christian / Ross. S Kraemer.
  • Contributor: James, Sharon L. [Editor]; Dillon, Sheila [Editor]
  • Published: Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
  • Published in: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 616 Seiten)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/9781444355024
  • ISBN: 9781444355024; 9781444354805; 9781444355000; 9781444355017; 1405192844
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: FB 4066 : griechisch und römisch (antike)
    NH 5290 : Geschichte der Frauen; Geschlechterforschung
  • Keywords: Antike > Frau > Geschichte
    Griechenland > Frau > Geschichte
    Römisches Reich > Frau > Geschichte
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-603) and indexes
    English
  • Description: Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic TitleAwarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social SciencesA 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 worldExplores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity

    pt. 4.Beginnings of empire.Case study v :Vergil's Dido /Sharon L. James --Women in Augustan Rome /Judith P. Hallett --Women in Augustan literature /Alison Keith --Women on the Bay of Naples /Eve D'Ambra --Early imperial female portraiture /Elizabeth Bartman --Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt /Christina Riggs.

    pt. 3.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 --Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods /Anne Bielman --Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts /Christina A. Salowey --Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period /Sheila Dillon --Women and family in Menander /Cheryl A. Cox --Gender and space, "public" and "private" /Monika Trumper --Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition /Elizabeth D. Carney --Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology /Maryline Parca --Jewish women : texts and contexts /Laura S. Lieber --Women, education, and philosophy /Marguerite Deslauriers --Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE /T. Corey Brennan.

    pt. 1.Women outside Athens and Rome.Case study i :mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives /Lauren Talalay --Women in ancient Mesopotamia /Amy R. Gansell --Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt /Kasia Szpakowska --Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age /Marianna Nikolaidou --Women in Homer /Cristiana Franco --Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal /Vedia Izzet.

    pt. 2.Archaic and classical periods.Case study ii :sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus /Sharon L. James --Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods /Sharon L. James --Women and law /Barbara Levick --Women and medicine /Holt Parker --Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece /Maria A. Liston --Approaches to reading attic vases /Kathryn Topper --Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze /Jenifer Neils --Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture /A.A. Donohue --Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece /Mireille M. Lee --Women and religion in Greece /Eva Stehle --Women and Roman religion /Lora L. Holland --Women in Magna Graecia /Gillian Shepherd.

    pt. 5.From empire to Christianity.Case study vi :female portraiture in Palmyra /Maura K. Heyn --Women in imperial Roman literature /Rhiannon Ash --Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period /Rachel Meyers --Women in Roman Britain /Lindsay Allason-Jones --Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west /Emily A. Hemelrijk --Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions /Werner Riess --Women in late antique Egypt /Jennifer Sheridan Moss --Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium /Ioli Kalavrezou --Becoming Christian /Ross. S Kraemer.