Bibliograph

Women in ancient Greece, a sourcebook, Bonnie MacLachlan

Type

Label

Women in ancient Greece, a sourcebook, Bonnie MacLachlan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women in ancient Greece

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

794592453

Responsibility statement

Bonnie MacLachlan

Series statement

Bloomsbury sources in ancient history

Sub title

a sourcebook

Summary

The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology and women's studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works

Table Of Contents

Where it all began : women in Hesiod -- Aphrodite and Demeter : goddesses in the Homeric hymns -- Women divine and mortal in the Homeric epics -- Women and gender in the melic and lyric poets -- The lived experiences of girls and women -- Women and property -- Foreign women -- Prostitutes -- Religious life of girls and women -- Gender performed on the Athenian stage -- Dorian girls and women -- Women and the state : Plato and Aristotle -- Warrior women -- The female body -- Women in the Hellenistic era

Classification

Creator