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ISBN 10: 1405192844
ISBN 13: 9781405192842
Author: Sharon L. James

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World 1st Table of contents:

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 Ag
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
25 Women, Education, and Philosophy
26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 B
PART IV: The Beginnings of Empire
Case Study V: Vergil’s Dido
27 Women in Augustan Rome
28 Women in Augustan Literature
29 Women on the Bay of Naples
30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture
31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt
PART V: From Empire to Christianity
Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra
32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature
33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period
34 Women in Roman Britain
35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West
36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions
37 Women in Late Antique Egypt
38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium
39 Becoming Christian

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