Description
Book SynopsisBuilding on the important work by Emily A. Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk 1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World Rolf Strootman 2 Empresses Taking Charge The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources Martijn Icks 3 Zenobia versus Mawia A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World Lucinda Dirven 4 Image and Reality The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora Daniëlle Slootjes 5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen 6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome Onno M. van Nijf 7 Women on Time Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt Sofie Remijsen 8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae Bacchus’ Women in Rome Emilia Salerno 9 Discourses of a Changing Society Women’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War Lien Foubert 10 Present in Public Lettering The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor Evelien J.J. Roels 11 Publicly Luxurious Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain Anique Hamelink 12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress The Women of Dura-Europos Sanne Klaver 13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia Marlena Whiting
