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Title New directions in the study of women in the Greco-Roman world / edited by Ronnie Ancona and Georgia Tsouvala
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 278 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Goddesses, a whore-wife, and a slave: Euripides' Hippolytus and epistemic injustice toward women / Edith Hall -- Periphrôn Pênelopeia: the reception of Penelope in fifth-century Athens / H. A. Shapiro -- The first basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes / Elizabeth D. Carney -- Power and patronage: rethinking the legacy of Artemisia II / Walter D. Penrose Jr -- The murder of Apronia / Barbara Levick -- A century of women's history from the papyri / Roger S. Bagnall -- Cosmetics in daily life of the ancient Mediterranean / Ann Ellis Hanson -- Female athletes in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Greek world / Georgia Tsouvala -- Normalizing illegality?: the Roman jurists and underage marriage / Bruce W. Frier -- Augusts and the economics of adultery / Marilyn B. Skinner -- Social laws and social facts / Kristina Milnor -- The woman in the street: becoming visible in mid-Republican Rome / Amy Richlin
Summary "Through a set of original essays, this volume showcases new directions in the well-established field of the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (1975) introduced scholars, students, and general readers to a new area of inquiry. Building upon and moving beyond that seminal work, the contributions to this volume together represent a next step in this interdisciplinary field. Contributors, all of whom have been influenced directly or indirectly by Pomeroy's Goddesses and other work, include scholars with training in the study of history, literature, law, art, medicine, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with new eyes and to view anew issues related to women today"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 30, 2021)
Subject Women -- History -- To 500.
Women -- Greece -- Social conditions
Women -- Rome -- Social conditions
Intellectual life
Social conditions
Women
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057129
Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770
Rome -- Intellectual life
Greece -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057109
Subject Greece
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ancona, Ronnie, 1951- editor.
Tsouvala, Georgia, editor.
LC no. 2020038366
ISBN 9780190937652
0190937653
9780190937645
0190937645