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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; PART I: Women Outside Athens and Rome; Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives; 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia; 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt; 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age; 4 Women in Homer; 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal; PART II: The Archaic and Classical Periods.
- Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods; 7 Women and Law; 8 Women and Medicine; 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece; 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases; 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze; 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture; 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece; 14 Women and Religion in Greece; 15 Women and Roman Religion; 16 Women in Magna Graecia.
- PART III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican PeriodsCase Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines; Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy; 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods; 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts; 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period; 20 Women and Family in Menander; 21 Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private"; 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition; 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology.
- 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts25 Women, Education, and Philosophy; 26 Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE; PART IV: The Beginnings of Empire; Case Study V: Vergil's Dido; 27 Women in Augustan Rome; 28 Women in Augustan Literature; 29 Women on the Bay of Naples; 30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture; 31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt; PART V: From Empire to Christianity; Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra; 32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature.
- 33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period34 Women in Roman Britain; 35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West; 36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions; 37 Women in Late Antique Egypt; 38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium; 39 Becoming Christian; Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography; References; Index of Women; Subject Index.