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Women in the classical world : image and text /

Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history. The vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus, riddled with gaps. The inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman wh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fantham, Elaine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Women in archaic Greece : talk in praise and blame
  • Spartan women : women in a warrior society
  • Women in classical Athens : heroines and housewives
  • Amazons : women in control
  • The Hellenistic period : women in a cosmopolitan world
  • Medicine : the "proof" of anatomy / Lesley Dean-Jones
  • Republican Rome I : from marriage by capture to partnership in war, the proud women of early Rome
  • Etruscan women / Larissa Bonfante
  • Republican Rome II : women in a wealthy society, aristocratic and working women from the second century B.C.E.
  • The "new women" : representation and reality
  • Women, family, and sexuality in the age of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians
  • The women of Pompeii
  • Women of the high and later empire : conformity and diversity.