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A companion to women in the ancient world, edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 539-603) and indexes

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A companion to women in the ancient world

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edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

part I. Women outside Athens and Rome. Case study I : the mother goddess in prehistory : debates and perspectives -- Women in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Hidden voices : unveiling women in Ancient Egypt -- Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women : paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age -- Women in Homer -- Etruscan women : towards a reappraisal -- part II. The Archaic and Classical periods. Case study II : sex and the single girl : the Cologne fragment of Archilochus -- Woman, city, state : theories, ideologies and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods -- Women and law -- Women and medicine -- Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in Ancient Greece -- Approaches to reading Attic vases -- Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze -- Interpreting women in Archaic and Classical Greek sculpture -- Dress and adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece -- Women and religion in Greece -- Women and Roman religion -- Women in Magna Graecia -- part III. Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and Late Republican periods. Case study III : Hellenistic Tanagra figurines -- Case study IV : domestic female slaves in Roman comedy -- Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods -- Women on Hellenistic grave stelai : reading images and texts -- Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period -- Women and family in Menander -- Gender and space, "public" and "private" -- Oikos keeping : women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition -- The women of Ptolemaic Egypt : the view from papyrology -- Jewish women : texts and contexts -- Women, education and philosophy -- Perceptions of women's power in the Late Republic : Terentia, Fulvia and the generation of 63 BCE -- part IV. THe beginnings of Empire. Case study V : Vergil's Dido -- Women in Augustan Rome -- Women in Augustan literature -- Women on the Bay of Naples -- Early imperial female portraiture -- Portraits, prestige, piety : images of women in Roman Egypt -- part V. From Empire to Christianity. Case study VI : female portraiture in Palmyra -- Women in Imperial Roman literature -- Female portraiture and female patronage in the High Imperial period -- Women in Roman Britain -- Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin West -- Rari exempli femina : female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions -- Women in Late Antique Egypt -- Representations of women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium -- Becoming Christian