Motherhood in Antiquity

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
“I Arose a Mother in Israel”: Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah....Pages 9-27
Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood....Pages 29-53
Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path....Pages 55-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Mother Knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm....Pages 79-106
Mamaea’s Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War....Pages 107-121
Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early Japan....Pages 123-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt....Pages 145-167
Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe....Pages 169-196
From Cybele to Artemis: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia....Pages 197-221
Motherhood, Personhood, Identity, and Place-Making in Ancient Mesoamerica....Pages 223-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-267