Title: A companion to women in the ancient world /
Authors: Kalavrezou, Ioli.; James, Sharon L.; Dillon, Sheila.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Women History; Civilization, Ancient; Antike; Femmes; Femmes Histoire; Civilisation classique; Griechenland (Altertum); Römisches Reich
Abstract: "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."--
Contents: pt. I. Women outside Athens and Rome. Case study I: The Mother Goddess in prehistory: debates and perspectives / Lauren Talalay -- Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell -- Hidden voices: unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska -- Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women: paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikolaïdou -- Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco -- Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet -- pt. II. The Archaic and Classical periods. Case study II: Sex and the single girl: the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James -- Women, city, state: theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James -- Women and law / Barbara Levick -- Women and medicine / Holt Parker -- Reading the bones: interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston -- Approaches to reading attic vases / Kathryn Topper -- Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Jenifer Neils -- Interpreting women in Archaic and Classical Greek sculpture / A. A. Donohue -- Dress and adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee -- Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle -- Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland -- Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd --