A Companion to Women in the Ancient WorldSharon L. James, Sheila Dillon 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. |
Contents
Women Outside Athens and Rome | 5 |
Towards a Reappraisal | 66 |
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 |
Gender and Space Public and Private Monika Trumper | 288 |
Women and Monarchy in | 304 |
The View | 316 |
Texts and Contexts | 329 |
Women Education and Philosophy | 343 |
The Beginnings of Empire | 367 |
From Empire to Christianity | 437 |
Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West | 478 |
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 |
and Roman Republican Periods | 238 |
Reading | 249 |
Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period | 263 |
Women and Family in Menander | 278 |
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 |
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