Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding AcademicTitleAwarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single VolumeReference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents aninterdisciplinary, methodologically–based collection ofnewly–commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study ofwomen in the ancient world.The first interdisciplinary, methodologically–based collectionof readings to address the study of women in the ancient worldExplores a broad range of topics relating to women inantiquity, including: Mother–Goddess Theory; Women in Homer,Pre–Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State,and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; HellenisticQueens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early WomenSaints; and many moreThematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historicalthemes of continuity, development, and innovationReconsiders much of the well–known evidence and preconceivednotions relating to women in antiquityIncludes contributions from many of the most prominent scholarsassociated with the study of women in antiquity INDICE: List of Illustrations ix.Notes on Contributors xvi.Preface and Acknowledgments xxii.Abbreviations xxiii.Maps xxvi.Introduction 1.PART I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5.Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives 7Lauren Talalay.1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11Amy R. Gansell.2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25Kasia Szpakowska.3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38Marianna Nikolaïdou.4 Women in Homer 54Cristiana Franco.5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66Vedia Izzet.PART II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79.Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81Sharon L. James.6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James.7 Women and Law 96Barbara Levick.8 Women and Medicine 107Holt Parker.9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women s Lives in Ancient Greece 125Maria A. Liston.10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141Kathryn Topper.11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153Jenifer Neils.12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167A. A. Donohue.13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179Mireille M. Lee.14 Women and Religion in Greece 191Eva Stehle.15 Women and Roman Religion 204Lora L. Holland.16 Women in Magna Graecia 215Gillian Shepherd.PART III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229.Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231Sheila Dillon.Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235Sharon L. James.17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238Anne Bielman.18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249Christina A. Salowey.19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263Sheila Dillon.20 Women and Family in Menander 278Cheryl A. Cox.21 Gender and Space, Public and Private 288Monika Trümper.22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304Elizabeth D. Carney.23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316Maryline Parca.24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329Laura S. Lieber.25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343Marguerite Deslauriers.26 Perceptions of Women s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354T. Corey Brennan.PART IV The Beginnings of Empire 367.Case Study V: Vergil s Dido 369Sharon L. James.27 Women in Augustan Rome 372Judith P. Hallett.28 Women in Augustan Literature 385Alison Keith.29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400Eve D Ambra.30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414Elizabeth Bartman.31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423Christina Riggs.PART V From Empire to Christianity 437.Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439Maura K. Heyn.32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442Rhiannon Ash.33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453Rachel Meyers.34 Women in Roman Britain 467Lindsay Allason–Jones.35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478Emily A. Hemelrijk.36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491Werner Riess.37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502Jennifer Sheridan Moss.38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513Ioli Kalavrezou.39 Becoming Christian 524Ross S. Kraemer.Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539.References 545.Index of Women 605.Subject Index 611
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