Pandora's daughters : the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity
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Pandora's daughters : the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity
(Ancient society and history)(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, c1987
2nd printing
- : pbk
- Other Title
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L'ambiguo malanno
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Note
Translation of: L'ambiguo malanno
Bibliography: p. 185-219
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Translator's Note
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Greece
Chapter 1. Matriarchy in Prehistory, Myth and History
Chapter 2. Origins of Western Misogyny
Chapter 3. Exclusion from the Polis
Chapter 4. Philosophers and Women
Chapter 5. Women and Literature
Chapter 6. Homosexuality and Love
Chapter 7. The Hellenistic Age: New Images, Old Stereotypes
Part II. Rome
Chapter 8. The Hypothesis of Matriarchy
Chapter 9. The Period of the Kings and the Republic
Chapter 10. The Principate and the Empire: The Emancipation of Women?
Chapter 11. The Byzantine Empire
Conclusion
Abbreviations Used in the NOtes
Notes
Index
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