Women in Antiquity: New Assessments

Prelinaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
1 From daily life\' to demography\'......Page 22
2 Ideology and the status of women\' in ancient Greece......Page 42
3 Approaching women through myth: vital tool or self-delusion?......Page 65
4 Signifying difference: the myth of Pandora......Page 79
5 The cults of Demeter and Kore......Page 96
6 Women\'s ritual and men\'s work in ancient Athens......Page 118
7 Women\'s identity and the family in the classical polis......Page 132
8 Some Pythagorean female virtues......Page 143
9 Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology......Page 156
10 Women who suffer from a man\'s disease: the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes......Page 170
11 Re-reading (Vestal) virginity......Page 187
12 Male power and legitimacy through women: the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians......Page 199
13 Women and elections in Pompeii......Page 215
14 A woman\'s voice—Laronia\'s role in Juvenal Satire 2......Page 228
15 Aemilia Pudentilla: or the wealthy widow\'s choice......Page 241
16 Female sanctity in the Greek calendar: the Synaxarion of Constantinople......Page 254
Select bibliography......Page 269
Index......Page 286