A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

James, Sharon L. / Dillon, Sheila (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

1. Edition February 2012
650 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9284-2

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach.

Further versions

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.
* The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
* Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more
* Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation
* Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity
* Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
Introduction
Part I: Women Outside Athens and Rome
Part II: The Archaic and Classical Periods
Part III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods
Part IV: The Beginnings of Empire
Part V: From Empire to Christianity
Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity: A Bibliography
Bibliography
Index of Women
Museum Index
Index

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003), and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.

Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006), and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).

S. L. James, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; S. Dillon, Duke University, USA