A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon

John Wiley & Sons, 15 jun 2015 - 656 pagina's

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.

Inhoudsopgave

• Maps: 3
• Women in Ancient Mesopotamia: 15
• Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt: 29
• Paths: 38
• Women in Homer: 54
• Towards a Reappraisal: 73
• The Archaic and Classical Periods: 79
• Women and Law: 96
• Women and Medicine: 107
• Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence: 125
• Approaches to Reading Attic Vases: 141
• Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze: 153
• Interpreting Women in Archaic: 167
• Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece: 179
• Women and Religion in Greece: 191
• Women and Roman Religion: 204
• Women in Magna Graecia: 215
• Reading: 249
• Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period: 263
• Women and Family in Menander: 278
• Gender and Space Public and Private: 288
• Women and Monarchy in: 304
• The View: 316
• Texts and Contexts: 329
• Women Education and Philosophy: 343
• The Beginnings of Empire: 367
• Women in Augustan Literature: 385
• Women on the Bay of Naples: 400
• Early Imperial Female Portraiture: 414
• From Empire to Christianity: 437
• Women in Roman Britain: 467
• Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West: 478
• Female Virtues on Roman: 491
• Women in Late Antique Egypt: 502
• Representations of Women in Late Antiquity: 513
• Becoming Christian: 524
• Women in Late Antiquity Apart from Egypt A Bibliography: 539
• References: 545
• Index of Women: 605
• Subject Index: 611

Over de auteur

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME :

Lindsay Allason-Jones, Rhiannon Ash, Elizabeth Bartman, Anne Bielman, T. Corey Brennan, Elizabeth D. Carney, Cheryl A. Cox, Eve D’Ambra, Marguerite Deslauriers, A. A. Donohue, Cristiana Franco, Amy R. Gansell, Judith P. Hallett, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Madeleine M. Henry, Maura K. Heyn, Lora L. Holland, Vedia Izzet, Sharon L. James, Ioli Kalavrezou, Alison Keith, Ross S. Kraemer, Mireille M. Lee, Barbara Levick, Laura S. Lieber, Maria A. Liston, Rachel Meyers, Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Jenifer Neils, Marianna Nikolaïdou, Maryline Parca, Holt Parker, Werner Riess, Christina Riggs, Christina A. Salowey, Gillian Shepherd, Eva Stehle, Kasia Szpakowska, Lauren Talalay, Kathryn Topper, Monika Trümper.

THE EDITORS

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003) and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.

Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006) and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World; Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Redacteurs: Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon
• Editie: geïllustreerd
• Uitgever: John Wiley & Sons, 2015
• ISBN: 1119025540, 9781119025542
• Lengte: 656 pagina's