The Limits of Participation: Women and Civic Life in the Greek East in the Hellenistic and Roman PeriodsIn the cities of the Greek East, during the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, female members of local ruling elites played a prominent and visible role in public life. In the large body of inscriptions documenting public life in the cities of Asia Minor (and to a lesser extent mainland Greece and the islands) they appear as civic benefactors, or undertaking civic offices and liturgies. In previous studies of this subject, attention has focussed almost entirely on the nature of women's 'political' prominence, which is usually interpreted as a result of increased female in-dependence and power in the legal and economic sphere. This study argues that notions of 'emancipation' or 'increased freedom and power' rest on a misinterpretation of women's social, legal and economic position, and are unhelpful in understanding the general developments that affected women's civic roles. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Part One The limits of participation | 9 |
of the law | 41 |
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1st century A.D. 2nd century 2nd century A.D. agonothesia agonothetes Ammia Aphrodisias Apollonis Appendix archiereia of Asia archiereus Archippe Artemis Athens Aurelia benefactions benefactors brother chapter citizens city's civic offices Claudia context dated daughter decree dedicated demos Didyma discussed dowry elite emperors Ephesos Epie eponymous Erythrai evidence examples father female festival Flavia gerousia Greek cities Greek East gymnasiarchos Hadrian Halfmann held Hellenistic period honorific honour hydrophoros IG XII imperial cult inscription Iulia Iulius joint known kyrios Kyzikos Lagina late liturgies Lycia male marriage Megakles mentioned Migeotte Miletos mother munera Nollé office-holding offices and liturgies Panamara Pergamon Plancia Priene priest priestess priesthood probably provincial prytanis Quaß referred relatives Robert role Roman period sanctuary second century B.C. Selge Sillyon statue bases stephanephoros Stratonikeia temple Termessos Thasos Thyateira tion wealth woman women Wörrle καὶ τῆς τοῦ τῶν