A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

A COMPANION TO WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD......Page 1
 Contents......Page 7
 List of Illustrations......Page 11
 Notes on Contributors......Page 18
 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 24
 Abbreviations......Page 25
 Maps......Page 28
 Introduction......Page 36
 PART I: Women Outside Athens and Rome......Page 40
  Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives......Page 42
  1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia......Page 46
  2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt......Page 60
  3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age......Page 73
  4 Women in Homer......Page 89
  5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal......Page 101
 PART II: The Archaic and Classical Periods......Page 114
  Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus......Page 116
  6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods......Page 119
  7 Women and Law......Page 131
  8 Women and Medicine......Page 142
  9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece......Page 160
  10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases......Page 176
  11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze......Page 188
  12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture......Page 202
  13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece......Page 214
  14 Women and Religion in Greece......Page 226
  15 Women and Roman Religion......Page 239
  16 Women in Magna Graecia......Page 250
 PART III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods......Page 264
  Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines......Page 266
  Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy......Page 270
  17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods......Page 273
  18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts......Page 284
  19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period......Page 298
  20 Women and Family in Menander......Page 313
  21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private”......Page 323
  22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition......Page 339
  23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology......Page 351
  24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts......Page 364
  25 Women, Education, and Philosophy......Page 378
  26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE......Page 389
 PART IV: The Beginnings of Empire......Page 402
  Case Study V: Vergil’s Dido......Page 404
  27 Women in Augustan Rome......Page 407
  28 Women in Augustan Literature......Page 420
  29 Women on the Bay of Naples......Page 435
  30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture......Page 449
  31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt......Page 458
 PART V: From Empire to Christianity......Page 472
  Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra......Page 474
  32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature......Page 477
  33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period......Page 488
  34 Women in Roman Britain......Page 502
  35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West......Page 513
  36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions......Page 526
  37 Women in Late Antique Egypt......Page 537
  38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium......Page 548
  39 Becoming Christian......Page 559
 Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography......Page 574
 References......Page 580
 Index of Women......Page 640
 Subject Index......Page 646