{"product_id":"a-companion-to-women-in-the-ancient-world-9781119025542","title":"A Companion to Women in the Ancient World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xxiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaps xxvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLauren Talalay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmy R. Gansell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKasia Szpakowska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianna Nikolaïdou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Women in Homer 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCristiana Franco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eVedia Izzet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon L. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMadeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Women and Law 96\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbara Levick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Women and Medicine 107\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHolt Parker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece 125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria A. Liston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn Topper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJenifer Neils\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA. A. Donohue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMireille M. Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Women and Religion in Greece 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEva Stehle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Women and Roman Religion 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLora L. Holland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Women in Magna Graecia 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGillian Shepherd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSheila Dillon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon L. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnne Bielman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristina A. Salowey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSheila Dillon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Women and Family in Menander 278\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCheryl A. Cox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” 288\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonika Trümper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth D. Carney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaryline Parca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura S. Lieber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarguerite Deslauriers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eT. Corey Brennan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Beginnings of Empire 367\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study V: Vergil’s Dido 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon L. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Women in Augustan Rome 372\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJudith P. Hallett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Women in Augustan Literature 385\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlison Keith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEve D’Ambra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Bartman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristina Riggs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V From Empire to Christianity 437\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaura K. Heyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhiannon Ash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRachel Meyers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Women in Roman Britain 467\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLindsay Allason-Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmily A. Hemelrijk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWerner Riess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Sheridan Moss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIoli Kalavrezou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Becoming Christian 524\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoss S. Kraemer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 545\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Women 605\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 611\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406968758615,"sku":"9781119025542","price":34.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119025542.jpg?v=1730497731","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-women-in-the-ancient-world-9781119025542","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}