ISBN:
9781444354805
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (652 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser v.150
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4093
Keywords:
Women -- History -- To 500
;
Civilization, Ancient
;
Civilization, Ancient
;
Women ; History ; To 500
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART I: Women Outside Athens and Rome -- Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives -- 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia -- 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt -- 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age -- 4 Women in Homer -- 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal -- PART II: The Archaic and Classical Periods -- Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus -- 6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods -- 7 Women and Law -- 8 Women and Medicine -- 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece -- 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases -- 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze -- 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture -- 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece -- 14 Women and Religion in Greece -- 15 Women and Roman Religion -- 16 Women in Magna Graecia -- PART III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods -- Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines -- Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy -- 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods -- 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts -- 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period -- 20 Women and Family in Menander -- 21 Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private" -- 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition -- 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology -- 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts.
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