Warrior Women

This study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their intelligence, initiative and courage.
The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in addition to the original text and an English translation - an examination of both the content and form of De Mulieribus, particularly as a catalogue of women. The times, methods, and purposes of the anonymous author are also investigated. Commentary-essays on the individual women then follow. A wide variety of sources are utilized in order to sketch the fullest possible portrait of each of these lively women.
This book, the very first study of De Mulieribus, is a useful introduction to a remarkable treatise.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Deborah Levine Gera, D.Phil. (1987) in Classics, University of Oxford, is a Lecturer in Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Style, Genre, and Literary Technique, (Oxford University Press, 1993).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Deborah Gera, Deborah Levine Gera, Dov Gera, D. Gera, Gera
• Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.1996
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• EAN: 9789004106659
• ISBN: 978-90-0-410665-9
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 16.7 x 24.8 x 2.3 cm
• Serie: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Supplements > 162
• Themen: Altgriechisch, Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval