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This edited volume showcases new scholarship in the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with fresh eyes and to view anew important issues related to women today.
List of contents
- 1. Introduction, Ronnie Ancona
- 2. Goddesses, a Whore-Wife and a Slave: Euripides' Hippolytus and Epistemic Injustice towards Women, Edith Hall
- 3. Periphrôn Pênelopeia: The Reception of Penelope in Fifth-Century Athens, H. A. Shapiro
- 4. The First Basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, Elizabeth D. Carney
- 5. Power and Patronage: Rethinking the Legacy of Artemisia II, Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
- 6. The Murder of Apronia, Barbara Levick
- 7. A Century of Women's History from the Papyri, Roger S. Bagnall
- 8. Cosmetics in Daily Life, Ann Ellis Hanson
- 9. Female Athletes in the Hellenistic and Roman Greek World, Georgia Tsouvala
- 10. Normalizing Illegality? The Roman Jurists and Underage Marriage, Bruce W. Frier
- 11. Augustus and the Economics of Adultery, Marilyn B. Skinner
- 12. Social Laws and Social Facts, Kristina Milnor
- 13. The Woman in the Street: Becoming Visible in Mid-Republican Rome, Amy Richlin
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Ronnie Ancona is Professor of Classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes, Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9, and Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader, co-editor of Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, and editor of A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature.
Georgia Tsouvala is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University. She is co-author of Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History and A Brief History of Ancient Greece, and co-editor of The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World.
Summary
This edited volume showcases new scholarship in the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with fresh eyes and to view anew important issues related to women today.
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One of Pomeroy's greatest contributions to the research field has been her interdisciplinary approach. It is appropriate, then, that the volume dedicated to her involves multiple sources and methodologies and spans the whole Greco-Roman period.
