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 of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003), and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.

Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006), and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xvi
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xxii
Abbreviations	p. xxiii
Maps	p. xxvi
Introduction	p. 1
Women Outside Athens and Rome	p. 5
The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives	p. 7
Women in Ancient Mesopotamia	p. 11
Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt	p. 25
Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age	p. 38
Women in Homer	p. 54
Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal	p. 66
The Archaic and Classical Periods	p. 79
Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus	p. 81
Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods	p. 84
Women and Law	p. 96
Women and Medicine	p. 107
Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece	p. 125
Approaches to Reading Attic Vases	p. 141
Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze	p. 153
Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture	p. 167
Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece	p. 179
Women and Religion in Greece	p. 191
Women and Roman Religion	p. 204
Women in Magna Graecia	p. 215
Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods	p. 229
Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines	p. 231
Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy	p. 235
Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods	p. 238
Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts	p. 259
Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period	p. 263
Women and Family in Menander	p. 278
Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private"	p. 288
Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition	p. 304
The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology
Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts	p. 329
Women, Education, and Philosophy	p. 343
Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 bce	p. 354
The Beginnings of Empire	p. 367
Vergil's Dido	p. 369
Women in Augustan Rome	p. 372
Women in Augustan Literature	p. 385
Women on the Bay of Naples	p. 400
Early Imperial Female Portraiture	p. 414
Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt	p. 423
From Empire to Christianity	p. 437
Female Portraiture in Palmyra	p. 439
Women in Imperial Roman Literature	p. 442
Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period	p. 453
Women in Roman Britain	p. 467
Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West	p. 478
Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions	p. 491
Women in Late Antique Egypt	p. 502
Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium	p. 513
Becoming Christian	p. 524
Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography	p. 539
References	p. 545
Index of Women	p. 605
Subject Index	p. 611
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