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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.
- The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
- Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, 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; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more
- Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation
- Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity
- Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity
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Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006), and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).
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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 7
Lauren Talalay
1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11
Amy R. Gansell
2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25
Kasia Szpakowska
3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38
Marianna Nikolaïdou
4 Women in Homer 54
Cristiana Franco
5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66
Vedia Izzet
PART II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79
Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81
Sharon L. James
6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84
Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James
7 Women and Law 96
Barbara Levick
8 Women and Medicine 107
Holt Parker
9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece 125
Maria A. Liston
10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141
Kathryn Topper
11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153
Jenifer Neils
12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167
A. A. Donohue
13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179
Mireille M. Lee
14 Women and Religion in Greece 191
Eva Stehle
15 Women and Roman Religion 204
Lora L. Holland
16 Women in Magna Graecia 215
Gillian Shepherd
PART III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229
Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231
Sheila Dillon
Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235
Sharon L. James
17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238
Anne Bielman
18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249
Christina A. Salowey
19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263
Sheila Dillon
20 Women and Family in Menander 278
Cheryl A. Cox
21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” 288
Monika Trümper
22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304
Elizabeth D. Carney
23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316
Maryline Parca
24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329
Laura S. Lieber
25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343
Marguerite Deslauriers
26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354
T. Corey Brennan
PART IV The Beginnings of Empire 367
Case Study V: Vergil’s Dido 369
Sharon L. James
27 Women in Augustan Rome 372
Judith P. Hallett
28 Women in Augustan Literature 385
Alison Keith
29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400
Eve D’Ambra
30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414
Elizabeth Bartman
31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423
Christina Riggs
PART V From Empire to Christianity 437
Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439
Maura K. Heyn
32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442
Rhiannon Ash
33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453
Rachel Meyers
34 Women in Roman Britain 467
Lindsay Allason-Jones
35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478
Emily A. Hemelrijk
36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491
Werner Riess
37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502
Jennifer Sheridan Moss
38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513
Ioli Kalavrezou
39 Becoming Christian 524
Ross S. Kraemer
Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539
References 545
Index of Women 605
Subject Index 611
