{"product_id":"a-companion-to-women-in-the-ancient-world-9781405192842","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\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This companion without doubt succeeds in its mission, while advocating for the further inclusion of women in antiquity in both scholarship and teaching.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Classical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, 3 May 2013) \u003cp\u003e\"This is a fascinating study, one which will feed into much current thought and discussion, lead to more links being made between periods, between genres and opening up the world of the ancient woman to further scrutiny and understanding, perhaps even more scholarship.\" (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"While the scope of topics here is massive and not every subject has been covered, this is an invaluable compilation of great breadth and a valuable resource on an important, complex subject.\" (\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 September 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xxiii\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":49407926370647,"sku":"9781405192842","price":147.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405192842.jpg?v=1730500980","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-women-in-the-ancient-world-9781405192842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}