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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. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes. Illuminating and insightful,
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World both challenges preconceived notions and paves the way for new directions in research on women in antiquity.
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xvi
Preface and Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations xxiv
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
Sheila Dillon Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235
Sharon L. James 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238
Anne Bielman 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249
Christina A. Salowey 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263
Sheila Dillon 20 Women and Family in Menander 278
Cheryl A. Cox 21 Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private" 288
Monika Trümper 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304
Elizabeth D. Carney 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316
Maryline Parca 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329
Laura S. Lieber 25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343
Marguerite Deslauriers 26 Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354
T. Corey Brennan Part IV The Beginnings of Empire 367 Case Study V: Vergil's Dido 369
Sharon L. James 27 Women in Augustan Rome 372
Judith P. Hallett 28 Women in Augustan Literature 385
Alison Keith 29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400
Eve D'Ambra 30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414
Elizabeth Bartman 31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423
Christina Riggs Part V From Empire to Christianity 437 Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439
Maura K. Heyn 32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442
Rhiannon Ash 33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453
Rachel Meyers 34 Women in Roman Britain 467
Lindsay Allason-Jones 35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478
Emily A. Hemelrijk 36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491
Werner Riess 37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502
Jennifer Sheridan Moss 38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513
Ioli Kalavrezou 39 Becoming Christian 524
Ross S. Kraemer Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539
References 545
Index of Women 605
Subject Index 611
About the author
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME : Lindsay Allason-Jones, Rhiannon Ash, Elizabeth Bartman, Anne Bielman, T. Corey Brennan, Elizabeth D. Carney, Cheryl A. Cox, Eve D'Ambra, Marguerite Deslauriers, A. A. Donohue, Cristiana Franco, Amy R. Gansell, Judith P. Hallett, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Madeleine M. Henry, Maura K. Heyn, Lora L. Holland, Vedia Izzet, Sharon L. James, Ioli Kalavrezou, Alison Keith, Ross S. Kraemer, Mireille M. Lee, Barbara Levick, Laura S. Lieber, Maria A. Liston, Rachel Meyers, Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Jenifer Neils, Marianna Nikolaïdou, Maryline Parca, Holt Parker, Werner Riess, Christina Riggs, Christina A. Salowey, Gillian Shepherd, Eva Stehle, Kasia Szpakowska, Lauren Talalay, Kathryn Topper, Monika Trümper. THE EDITORS
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, and 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).
Summary
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.
