Aspects of women in antiquity
Subtitle: proceedings of the first Nordic Symposium on Women's Lives in Antiquity, Göteborg 12 - 15 June 1997
By: edited by Lena Larsson Lovén & Agneta Strömberg.
Contributors: Larsson Lovén, Lena; Strömberg, Agneta.
Series: Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature -- 153
Publisher: P. Åströms Förlag; Astrom
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Jonsered
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Women -- Greece -- History -- To 500 -- Congresses.; Women -- Greece -- Social conditions -- Congresses.; Women -- Rome -- History -- To 500 -- Congresses.; Women -- Rome -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sex-indicating grave gifts in the Athenian Iron Age : an investigation and its results / Agneta Strömberg; title: Cybele and Aphrodite : two aspects of the Great Goddess / Britt-Marie Näsström; title: Parthenia : remarks on virginity and its meanings in the religious context of ancient Greece / Leena Viitaniemi; title: Euripides Bakkhai and maenadism / Synnøve des Bouvrie; title: Etruscan women : a cross-cultural perspective / Marjatta Nielsen; title: Lanam fecit : woolworking and female virtue / Lena Larsson Lovén.; title: (Cont.) Female property and power in Imperial Rome : Institutum Romanum Finlandiae / Päiva Setälä; title: Conflicting descriptions of women's religious activity in mid-Republican Rome : Augustan narratives about the arrival of Cybele and the Bacchanalia scandal / Marja-Leen Hänninen; title: 'In publicum procurrendi' : women in the public space of Roman Greece / Jorunn Økland; title: The twofold view of women : gender construction in early Christianity / Gunhild Vidén; title: Penthesileia : a deadly different Amazon and Achilles' lost honour / Ulrika Stahre; title: Sublime poetry or feminine fiddling? Gender and reception : Sulpicia through the eyes of two 19th century scholars / Mathilde Skoie.