A companion to women in the ancient world /
A companion to women in the ancient world /
edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon.
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 616 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world .
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-603) and indexes.
Women outside Athens and Rome. mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives / Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Women in Homer / Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Lauren Talalay -- Amy R. Gansell -- Kasia Szpakowska -- Marianna Nikolaidou -- Cristiana Franco -- Vedia Izzet. pt. 1. Case study i : Archaic and classical periods. sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Women and law / Women and medicine / Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Approaches to reading attic vases / Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture / Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece / Women and religion in Greece / Women and Roman religion / Women in Magna Graecia / Sharon L. James -- Sharon L. James -- Barbara Levick -- Holt Parker -- Maria A. Liston -- Kathryn Topper -- Jenifer Neils -- A.A. Donohue -- Mireille M. Lee -- Eva Stehle -- Lora L. Holland -- Gillian Shepherd. pt. 2. Case study ii : Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late Republican periods. Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts / Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Women and family in Menander / Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology / Jewish women : texts and contexts / Women, education, and philosophy / Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / Sheila Dillon -- Sharon L. James -- Anne Bielman -- Christina A. Salowey -- Sheila Dillon -- Cheryl A. Cox -- Monika Trumper -- Elizabeth D. Carney -- Maryline Parca -- Laura S. Lieber -- Marguerite Deslauriers -- T. Corey Brennan. pt. 3. Case study iii : Case study iv : Beginnings of empire. Vergil's Dido / Women in Augustan Rome / Women in Augustan literature / Women on the Bay of Naples / Early imperial female portraiture / Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt / Sharon L. James -- Judith P. Hallett -- Alison Keith -- Eve D'Ambra -- Elizabeth Bartman -- Christina Riggs. pt. 4. Case study v : From empire to Christianity. female portraiture in Palmyra / Women in imperial Roman literature / Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period / Women in Roman Britain / Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west / Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Women in late antique Egypt / Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Becoming Christian / Maura K. Heyn -- Rhiannon Ash -- Rachel Meyers -- Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Emily A. Hemelrijk -- Werner Riess -- Jennifer Sheridan Moss -- Ioli Kalavrezou -- Ross. S Kraemer. pt. 5. Case study vi :
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9786613435699
9781118380635 Blackwell http://www.blackwellreference.com E7D51F42-A7B0-4E91-A888-CE8A026101D1 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
To 500
Women--History--To 500.
Civilization, Ancient.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Civilization, Ancient.
Women.
Vrouwen.
Oudheid.
Kvinnor--historia--antiken.
Antiken--kultur- och samhällsliv.
Electronic books.
History.
HQ1127 / .C637 2012eb
305.4093
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-603) and indexes.
Women outside Athens and Rome. mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives / Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Women in Homer / Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Lauren Talalay -- Amy R. Gansell -- Kasia Szpakowska -- Marianna Nikolaidou -- Cristiana Franco -- Vedia Izzet. pt. 1. Case study i : Archaic and classical periods. sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Women and law / Women and medicine / Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Approaches to reading attic vases / Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture / Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece / Women and religion in Greece / Women and Roman religion / Women in Magna Graecia / Sharon L. James -- Sharon L. James -- Barbara Levick -- Holt Parker -- Maria A. Liston -- Kathryn Topper -- Jenifer Neils -- A.A. Donohue -- Mireille M. Lee -- Eva Stehle -- Lora L. Holland -- Gillian Shepherd. pt. 2. Case study ii : Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late Republican periods. Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts / Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Women and family in Menander / Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology / Jewish women : texts and contexts / Women, education, and philosophy / Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / Sheila Dillon -- Sharon L. James -- Anne Bielman -- Christina A. Salowey -- Sheila Dillon -- Cheryl A. Cox -- Monika Trumper -- Elizabeth D. Carney -- Maryline Parca -- Laura S. Lieber -- Marguerite Deslauriers -- T. Corey Brennan. pt. 3. Case study iii : Case study iv : Beginnings of empire. Vergil's Dido / Women in Augustan Rome / Women in Augustan literature / Women on the Bay of Naples / Early imperial female portraiture / Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt / Sharon L. James -- Judith P. Hallett -- Alison Keith -- Eve D'Ambra -- Elizabeth Bartman -- Christina Riggs. pt. 4. Case study v : From empire to Christianity. female portraiture in Palmyra / Women in imperial Roman literature / Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period / Women in Roman Britain / Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west / Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Women in late antique Egypt / Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Becoming Christian / Maura K. Heyn -- Rhiannon Ash -- Rachel Meyers -- Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Emily A. Hemelrijk -- Werner Riess -- Jennifer Sheridan Moss -- Ioli Kalavrezou -- Ross. S Kraemer. pt. 5. Case study vi :
9781444354805 1444354809 9781444355024 1444355023 9781444355000 1444355007 9781444355017 1444355015 9781118380635 1118380630
9786613435699
9781118380635 Blackwell http://www.blackwellreference.com E7D51F42-A7B0-4E91-A888-CE8A026101D1 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
To 500
Women--History--To 500.
Civilization, Ancient.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Civilization, Ancient.
Women.
Vrouwen.
Oudheid.
Kvinnor--historia--antiken.
Antiken--kultur- och samhällsliv.
Electronic books.
History.
HQ1127 / .C637 2012eb
305.4093