Women in Ancient Greece
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Women in Ancient Greece
British Museum Press, c1995
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Bibliography: p. 209-220
Includes index
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Description
This is an exploration of an often-overlooked group in ancient Greece: women. Though they played little or no public role, women were an integral part of Greek society and it is impossible to gain a full and balanced idea of that society without considering their experience alongside that of men. This book looks at the available evidence for women's lives: their status in the family and in marriage, their legal and political situation and their place in religious observance. It studies depictions of women in art and literature and discusses what these reveal of the prevailing (male) attitudes to women. The book focuses on the Archaic and Classical ages, exploring the political and cultural changes of the period and how they would have affected women in Athens, Sparta and Gortyn (the three city-states for which evidence exists).
Table of Contents
- Women in ancient Greece: myth - an introduction
- creation myth
- the Olympian goddesses
- virgins and mothers
- women in the poems of Homer
- Amazons. The Archaic age 750-500 BC: women in an age of transition
- women and the poets
- women as poets - Sappho
- women in stone - sculptural representations. The classical age 500-336 BC: women's bodies
- women in Athenian law and society
- the lives of women in classical Athens
- Sparta and Gortyn
- women and religion
- ideas about women
- women in classical sculpture. Postscript.
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