HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 FEMALE SLAVES IN THE ODYSSEY; 3 "I, WHOM SHE DETESTED SO BITTERLY"; 4 SLAVES WITH SLAVES; 5 WOMEN AND SLAVES AS HIPPOCRATIC PATIENTS; 6 SYMBOLS OF GENDER AND STATUS HIERARCHIES IN THE ROMAN HOUSEHOLD; 7 VILLAINS, WIVES, AND SLAVES IN THE COMEDIES OF PLAUTUS; 8 WOMEN, SLAVES, AND THE HIERARCHIES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; 9 MASTERING CORRUPTION; 10 LOYAL SLAVES AND LOYAL WIVES; 11 SERVITIUM AMORIS: AMOR SERVITII; 12 REMAINING INVISIBLE; 13 CRACKING THE CODE OF SILENCE
Summary
Women and Slaves in Classical Culture offers a stimulating and frequently controversial insight into the complexities of gender and status in the Greco-Roman world
