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Women in antiquity : new assessments /

The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past two decades. This collection of new assessments has been written by some of the most influential experts in this field from all over the world. The contributors reassess the role of women in diver...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hawley, Richard, 1963-, Levick, Barbara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson
  • Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz
  • Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion? / Ken Dowden
  • Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin
  • The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon
  • Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl
  • Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy
  • Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou
  • Self-help, self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King
  • Women who suffer from a man's disease : the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes / Danielle Gourevitch
  • Re-reading (Vestal) virginity / Mary Beard
  • Male power and legitimacy through women : the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians / Mireille Corbier
  • Women and elections in Pompeii / Lisa Savunen
  • A women's voice
  • Laronia's role in Juvenal Satire 2 / S.H. Braund
  • Aemilia Pudentilla : or the wealthy widow's choice / Elaine Fattham
  • Female sancity in the Greek calendar : the Synaxarion of Constaninople / Anna Wilson.