Description
Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, the contributors to this volume offer the first extensive study of the private and public roles of mothers in the Classical wor
Trade ReviewA recent collection of essays on motherhood and mothering in antiquity,
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, reminds us that questions about what it means to be a mother were also present in ancient Greek and Roman societies, despite some significant differences. * Times Literary Supplement *
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The Public and Private Faces of Mothering and Motherhood in Classical Antiquity (Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell)
- 2. Maternity and Miasma: Dress and the Transition from Parthenos to Gunē (Mireille M. Lee)
- 3. Motherhood as Teleia: Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine (Angela Taraskiewicz)
- 4. Collaboration and Conflict: Discourses of Maternity in Hippocratic Gynecology and Embryology (Yurie Hong)
- 5. Citizen-Mothers on the Tragic Stage (Angeliki Tzanetou)
- 6. Working Girls: Mother–Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes (Anise K. Strong)
- 7. Tenderness or Taboo: Images of Breast-Feeding Mothers in Greek and Latin Literature (Patricia Salzman-Mitchell)
- 8. Mater Patriae: Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood (Prudence Jones)
- 9. Mater Amoris: Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome (Genevieve Liveley)
- 10. Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro: Mothers in Flavian Epic (Antony Augoustakis)
- 11. Imperial Mothers and Monuments in Rome (Margaret L. Woodhull)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
