Pandora's daughters
Subtitle: the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity
By: Eva Cantarella ; translated by Maureen B. Fant ; with a foreword by Mary R. Lefkowitz.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Women -- Greece -- History.; Women -- Rome -- History.; Civilization, Classical.
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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 185-219.
Translation of: L'ambiguo malanno.
Includes index.