A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Copyright © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Editor(s): Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon

Published Online: 13 FEB 2012 09:34AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405192842

Online ISBN: 9781444355024

DOI: 10.1002/9781444355024

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Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2013 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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xxxiii)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–3)

      Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

  3. Part I: Women Outside Athens and Rome

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      Part Introduction (pages 5–6)

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      Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives (pages 7–10)

      Lauren Talalay

    3. Chapter 1

      Women in Ancient Mesopotamia (pages 11–24)

      Amy R. Gansell

    4. Chapter 2

      Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt (pages 25–37)

      Kasia Szpakowska

    5. Chapter 3

      Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age (pages 38–53)

      Marianna Nikolaïdou

    6. Chapter 4

      Women in Homer (pages 54–65)

      Cristiana Franco

    7. Chapter 5

      Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal (pages 66–77)

      Vedia Izzet

  4. Part II: The Archaic and Classical Periods

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      Part Introduction (pages 79–80)

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      Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus (pages 81–83)

      Sharon L. James

    3. Chapter 6

      Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods (pages 84–95)

      Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James

    4. Chapter 7

      Women and Law (pages 96–106)

      Barbara Levick

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      Chapter 8

      Women and Medicine (pages 107–124)

      Holt Parker

    6. Chapter 9

      Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece (pages 125–140)

      Maria A. Liston

    7. Chapter 10

      Approaches to Reading Attic Vases (pages 141–152)

      Kathryn Topper

    8. Chapter 11

      Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze (pages 153–166)

      Jenifer Neils

    9. Chapter 12

      Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture (pages 167–178)

      A. A. Donohue

    10. Chapter 13

      Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece (pages 179–190)

      Mireille M. Lee

    11. Chapter 14

      Women and Religion in Greece (pages 191–203)

      Eva Stehle

    12. Chapter 15

      Women and Roman Religion (pages 204–214)

      Lora L. Holland

    13. Chapter 16

      Women in Magna Graecia (pages 215–228)

      Gillian Shepherd

  5. Part III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods

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      Part Introduction (pages 229–230)

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      Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines (pages 231–234)

      Sheila Dillon

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      Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy (pages 235–237)

      Sharon L. James

    4. Chapter 17

      Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods (pages 238–248)

      Anne Bielman

    5. Chapter 18

      Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts (pages 249–262)

      Christina A. Salowey

    6. Chapter 19

      Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period (pages 263–277)

      Sheila Dillon

    7. Chapter 20

      Women and Family in Menander (pages 278–287)

      Cheryl A. Cox

    8. Chapter 21

      Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” (pages 288–303)

      Monika Trümper

    9. Chapter 22

      Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition (pages 304–315)

      Elizabeth D. Carney

    10. Chapter 23

      The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology (pages 316–328)

      Maryline Parca

    11. Chapter 24

      Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts (pages 329–342)

      Laura S. Lieber

    12. Chapter 25

      Women, Education, and Philosophy (pages 343–353)

      Marguerite Deslauriers

    13. Chapter 26

      Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE (pages 354–366)

      T. Corey Brennan

  6. Part IV: The Beginnings of Empire

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      Part Introduction (pages 367–368)

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      Case Study V: Vergil's Dido (pages 369–371)

      Sharon L. James

    3. Chapter 27

      Women in Augustan Rome (pages 372–384)

      Judith P. Hallett

    4. Chapter 28

      Women in Augustan Literature (pages 385–399)

      Alison Keith

    5. Chapter 29

      Women on the Bay of Naples (pages 400–413)

      Eve D'Ambra

    6. Chapter 30

      Early Imperial Female Portraiture (pages 414–422)

      Elizabeth Bartman

    7. Chapter 31

      Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt (pages 423–436)

      Christina Riggs

  7. Part V: From Empire to Christianity

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      Part Introduction (pages 437–438)

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      Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra (pages 439–441)

      Maura K. Heyn

    3. Chapter 32

      Women in Imperial Roman Literature (pages 442–452)

      Rhiannon Ash

    4. Chapter 33

      Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period (pages 453–466)

      Rachel Meyers

    5. Chapter 34

      Women in Roman Britain (pages 467–477)

      Lindsay Allason-Jones

    6. Chapter 35

      Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West (pages 478–490)

      Emily A. Hemelrijk

    7. Chapter 36

      Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions (pages 491–501)

      Werner Riess

    8. Chapter 37

      Women in Late Antique Egypt (pages 502–512)

      Jennifer Sheridan Moss

    9. Chapter 38

      Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium (pages 513–523)

      Ioli Kalavrezou

    10. Chapter 39

      Becoming Christian (pages 524–538)

      Ross S. Kraemer

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      Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography (pages 539–544)

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      References (pages 545–603)

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      Index of Women (pages 605–610)

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      Subject Index (pages 611–616)

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