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A companion to women in the ancient world
Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic TitleAwarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social SciencesA Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prom...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford ; Chichester, West Sussex
: Wiley-Blackwell
, 2012
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world
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A companion to women in the ancient world |
| Author Notes: | edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon |
| Summary: | Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic TitleAwarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social SciencesA 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.The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient worldExplores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity pt. 4.Beginnings of empire.Case study v :Vergil's Dido /Sharon L. James --Women in Augustan Rome /Judith P. Hallett --Women in Augustan literature /Alison Keith --Women on the Bay of Naples /Eve D'Ambra --Early imperial female portraiture /Elizabeth Bartman --Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt /Christina Riggs. pt. 3.Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late Republican periods.Case study iii :Hellenistic Tanagra figurines /Sheila Dillon --Case study iv :domestic female slaves in Roman comedy /Sharon L. James --Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods /Anne Bielman --Women on Hellenistic Grave stela i: reading images and texts /Christina A. Salowey --Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period /Sheila Dillon --Women and family in Menander /Cheryl A. Cox --Gender and space, "public" and "private" /Monika Trumper --Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition /Elizabeth D. Carney --Women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology /Maryline Parca --Jewish women : texts and contexts /Laura S. Lieber --Women, education, and philosophy /Marguerite Deslauriers --Perceptions of women's power in the late republic : Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE /T. Corey Brennan. pt. 1.Women outside Athens and Rome.Case study i :mother Goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives /Lauren Talalay --Women in ancient Mesopotamia /Amy R. Gansell --Hidden voices : unveiling women in ancient Egypt /Kasia Szpakowska --Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age /Marianna Nikolaidou --Women in Homer /Cristiana Franco --Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal /Vedia Izzet. pt. 2.Archaic and classical periods.Case study ii :sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus /Sharon L. James --Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods /Sharon L. James --Women and law /Barbara Levick --Women and medicine /Holt Parker --Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece /Maria A. Liston --Approaches to reading attic vases /Kathryn Topper --Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze /Jenifer Neils --Interpreting Women in archaic and classical Greek sculpture /A.A. Donohue --Dress and adornment in archaic and classical Greece /Mireille M. Lee --Women and religion in Greece /Eva Stehle --Women and Roman religion /Lora L. Holland --Women in Magna Graecia /Gillian Shepherd. pt. 5.From empire to Christianity.Case study vi :female portraiture in Palmyra /Maura K. Heyn --Women in imperial Roman literature /Rhiannon Ash --Female portraiture and female patronage in the high imperial period /Rachel Meyers --Women in Roman Britain /Lindsay Allason-Jones --Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin west /Emily A. Hemelrijk --Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions /Werner Riess --Women in late antique Egypt /Jennifer Sheridan Moss --Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium /Ioli Kalavrezou --Becoming Christian /Ross. S Kraemer. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-603) and indexes |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 616 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9781444355024 9781444354805 9781444355000 9781444355017 1405192844 |
