Gender in Classical Antiquity Sources and Methods

• Addresses both masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman cultures using a wide range of sources
• Written in an easy-to-read style with summaries at the start and end of each chapter to aid understanding
• Discusses a variety of materials,  including poetry, drama, myth, religion, philosophy, law, historiography, satire, letters, art, educational texts, medical and technological treatises
• Offers readers critical tools with which to analyse their own cultures to see how gender works, showing in action how studying the past illuminates one’s own society
• Organized by topic and type of evidence, rather than  chronologically, to highlight similarities and differences between Greek and Roman cultures
• Structured to work easily with sourcebooks on Greek and Roman gender

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