Women in Antiquity

by: McAuslan, I. Walcot, P. Clark, G.

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Women in antiquity
Author:Ian MacAuslan

Summary:This volume contains a collection of essays covering the history, law, literature, mythology and religion of the Graeco-Roman classical world from a woman's perspective. The majority of articles take account of the latest archaeological and sociological discoveries.

Contents:
Gillian Clark: Introduction. Anthony J. Marshall: Tacitus and the Governor's Lady: A Note on Annals 3.33-4. Averil Cameron: Neither Male nor Female. Gillian Glark: Roman Women. Douglas M. MacDowell: Love versus the Law: An Essay on Manander's Aspis. Mary R. Lefkowitz: Wives and Husbands. Thomas E. J. Wiedemann: Thucydides, Women, and the Limits of Rational Analysis. Peter Walcot: Greek Attitudes to Women: the Mythological Evidence. Shelley P. Haley: The Five Wives of Pompey the Great. Peter Walcot: Plato's Mother and Other Terrible Women. David Cohen: Seclusion, Separation, and the Status of Women in Classical Athens. Jane F. Gardner: Aristophanes and Male Anxiety: The Defence of the Oikos. Lorna Hardwick: Ancient Amazons: Heroes, Outsiders or Women?. A. T. Fear: The Dancing Girls of Cadiz. H. S. Versnel: The Festival for Bona Dea and the Thesmophoria

Series:
Greece & Rome studies, v. 3

216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Women in Antiquity

by: McAuslan, I. Walcot, P. Clark, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780199203031 / 978-0-19-920303-1
• ISBN-03: 0199203032 / 0-19-920303-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock