ISBN:
9780415090957
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (342 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Images of Women in Antiquity
DDC:
305.42093
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book diverse roles for and attitudes to women in ancient societies are explored: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses and typically as eranged. The shifting focus is variously economic, social, biological, religious and artistic. The studies cover a wide geographic and chronological range, from the ancient Hittite kingdom to the Byzantine Empires.This book has been brought thoroughly up to date with the addition of a new introduction an
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Introduction; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Part One: Perceiving Women; 1. Women: Model for Possession Bygreek Daemons; 2. Exit Atossa: Images of Women in Greek Historiography on Persia; 3. Women and Witchcraft in Ancient Assyrian; Part Two: Women and Power; 4. Influential Women; 5. The God's Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt; Part Three: Women at Home; 6. Women and Housing in Classical Greece: The Archaeological Evidence; 7. Women on Athenian Vases: Problems of Interpretation
Description / Table of Contents:
Part Four: The Biology of Women8. Bound to Bleed: Artemis and Greek Women; 9. Hittite Birth Rituals; Part Five: Discovering Women; 10. Celtic Women in the Early Middle Ages; 11. In Search of Byzantine Women: Three Avenues of Approach; Part Six: The Economic Role of Women; 12. Bridewealth and Dowry in Nuzi; 13. Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece; 14. Women and Wealth; Part Seven: Women in Religion and Cult; 15. Goddesses, Women and Jezebel; 16. The Naditu Women of Sippar; 17. The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual and Cult of Graeco Roman Palestine
Description / Table of Contents:
18. Women in Early Syrian ChristianityAbbreviations; Appendices, Addenda and Corrigenda; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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