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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xvi Preface and Acknowledgments xxii Abbreviations xxiii Maps xxvi Introduction 1 PART I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5 Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives 7 Lauren Talalay 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11 Amy R. Gansell 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25 Kasia Szpakowska 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38 Marianna Nikolaïdou 4 Women in Homer 54 Cristiana Franco 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66 Vedia Izzet PART II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79 Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81 Sharon L. James 6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84 Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James 7 Women and Law 96 Barbara Levick 8 Women and Medicine 107 Holt Parker 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece 125 Maria A. Liston 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141 Kathryn Topper 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153 Jenifer Neils 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167 A. A. Donohue 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179 Mireille M. Lee 14 Women and Religion in Greece 191 Eva Stehle 15 Women and Roman Religion 204 Lora L. Holland 16 Women in Magna Graecia 215 Gillian Shepherd PART III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229 Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231 ...
