Women's influence on classical civilization
By: edited by Fiona McHardy and Eireann Marshall.
Contributors: McHardy, Fiona.; Marshall, Eireann, 1967-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Women -- History -- To 500.; Women -- Greece.; Women -- Rome.; Civilization, Classical.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Smultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Table of contents: title: The logistics of gender from classical philosophy / Grainne McLaughlin; title: Matriot games? Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and the forging of family-oriented political values / Judith P. Hallett; title: Politics of inclusion/exclusion in Attic Tragedy / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz; title: Exemplary housewife or luxurious slut: cultural representations of women in the Roman economy / Suzanne Dixon; title: Matronly patrons in the early Roman Empire: the case of Salvia Postuma / Margaret Woodhull; title: Women's influence on revenge in Ancient Greece/ Fiona McHardy; title: A woman's influence on a Roman text: Marcia and Seneca / Rebecca Langlands; title: Women and the transmission of Libyan culture / Eireann Marshall; title: Galla Placidia: conduit of culture? / Mary Harlow; title: Gender and cultural identity in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson.