Women in antiquity : new assessments / edited by Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Hawley, Richard, 1963-, Levick, Barbara
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson
  • Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz
  • Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion? / Ken Dowden
  • Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin
  • The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon
  • Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl
  • Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy
  • Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou
  • Self-help, self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King
  • Women who suffer from a man's disease : the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes / Danielle Gourevitch
  • Re-reading (Vestal) virginity / Mary Beard
  • Male power and legitimacy through women : the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians / Mireille Corbier
  • Women and elections in Pompeii / Lisa Savunen
  • A women's voice
  • Laronia's role in Juvenal Satire 2 / S.H. Braund
  • Aemilia Pudentilla : or the wealthy widow's choice / Elaine Fattham
  • Female sancity in the Greek calendar : the Synaxarion of Constaninople / Anna Wilson.