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Title Images of women in antiquity / edited by Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt
Published London : Croom Helm, [1983]
London : Croom Helm, 1983
©1983
©1983

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Description xi, 323 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm
Contents Perceiving women -- Women : model for possession by Greek daemons / Ruth Padel -- Exit Atossa : images of women in Grek historiography on Persia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Women and witchcraft in ancient Assyria / Sue Rollin -- Women and power -- Influential women / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- The god's wife of Amun in the 18th dynasty in Egypt / Gay Robins -- Women at home -- Women and housing in Classical Greece : the archaeological evidence / Susan Walker -- Women on Athenian vases : problems of interpretation / Dyfri Williams -- The biology of women -- Bound to bleed : Artemis and Greek women / Helen King -- Hittite birth rituals / Jackie Pringle -- Discovering women -- Celtic women in the early Middle Ages / Wendy Davies -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach / Judith Herrin -- The economic role of women -- Bridewealth and dowry in Nuzi / Katarzyna Grosz -- Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- Women and wealth / Riet Van Bremen -- Women in religion and cult -- Goddesses, women, and Jezebel / Peter R. Ackroyd -- The Nadītu women of Sippar / Ulla Jeyes -- The role of Jewish women in the religion, ritual, and cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine / Léonie J. Archer -- Women in early Syrian Christiantiy / Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Analysis Ancient world Society Role of women
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-318) and index
Subject Women -- History -- To 500.
Women -- Social conditions -- History.
Women -- Social conditions.
Women -- Social conditons -- History
Author Cameron, Averil.
Kuhrt, Amélie, 1944-
ISBN 0709907419 cased
0709907532 paperback
9780709907411 cased
9780709907534 paperback