Women in the Classical World
Subtitle: Image and Text
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 15, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780195067279
First sentence: This epigram celebrates the life of an early fourth-century B.C.E. Athenian woman, Mnesarete, who has lived up to the promise of her name, which means "remembering (mnes-) virtue or excellence (arete)."