Women in the classical world : image and text

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Women in the classical world : image and text

Elaine Fantham ... [et al.]

Oxford University Press, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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BL The only study to integrate such a wide range of materials on the women of ancient Greece and Rome into one accessible volume BL Written by a team of distinguished classical scholars and art historians Women in the Classical World gathers the most important primary written and visual sources on the lives of ancient women and presents them in a chronological sequence, within their historical and cultural contexts.

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I. WOMEN IN THE GREEK WORLD 1: Women in Archaic Greece: Talk in Praise and Blame 2: Excursus--Spartan Women: Women in a Warrior Society 3: Women in Classical Athens: Heroines and Housewives 4: Excursus--Amazons: Women in Control 5: The Hellenistic Period: Women in a Cosmopolitan World 6: Excursus--Medicine: The "Proof" of Anatomy II. WOMEN IN THE ROMAN WORLD 7: Republican Rome I: From Marriage by Capture to Partnership in War--The Proud Women of Early Rome 8: Excursus--Etruscan Women 9: Republican Rome II: Women in a Wealthy Society--Aristocratic and Working Women from the Second Century B.C.E. 10: Excursus--The "New Woman": Representation and Reality 11: Women, Family, and Sexuality in the Age of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians 12: Excursus--The Women of Pompeii 13: Women of the High and Later Empire: Conformity and Diversity Chronology of the Greek and Roman Worlds 776 B.C.E.-313 C.E. List of Illustrations Index

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