Ebook: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Content:
Chapter 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia (pages 11–24): Amy R. Gansell
Chapter 2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt (pages 25–37): Kasia Szpakowska
Chapter 3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age (pages 38–53): Marianna Nikolaidou
Chapter 4 Women in Homer (pages 54–65): Cristiana Franco
Chapter 5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal (pages 66–77): Vedia Izzet
Chapter 6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods (pages 84–95): Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James
Chapter 7 Women and Law (pages 96–106): Barbara Levick
Chapter 8 Women and Medicine (pages 107–124): Holt Parker
Chapter 9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women's Lives in Ancient Greece (pages 125–140): Maria A. Liston
Chapter 10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases (pages 141–152): Kathryn Topper
Chapter 11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze (pages 153–166): Jenifer Neils
Chapter 12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture (pages 167–178): A. A. Donohue
Chapter 13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece (pages 179–190): Mireille M. Lee
Chapter 14 Women and Religion in Greece (pages 191–203): Eva Stehle
Chapter 15 Women and Roman Religion (pages 204–214): Lora L. Holland
Chapter 16 Women in Magna Graecia (pages 215–228): Gillian Shepherd
Chapter 17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods (pages 238–248): Anne Bielman
Chapter 18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts (pages 249–262): Christina A. Salowey
Chapter 19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period (pages 263–277): Sheila Dillon
Chapter 20 Women and Family in Menander (pages 278–287): Cheryl A. Cox
Chapter 21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” (pages 288–303): Monika Trumper
Chapter 22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition (pages 304–315): Elizabeth D. Carney
Chapter 23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology (pages 316–328): Maryline Parca
Chapter 24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts (pages 329–342): Laura S. Lieber
Chapter 25 Women, Education, and Philosophy (pages 343–353): Marguerite Deslauriers
Chapter 26 Perceptions of Women's Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE (pages 354–366): T. Corey Brennan
Chapter 27 Women in Augustan Rome (pages 372–384): Judith P. Hallett
Chapter 28 Women in Augustan Literature (pages 385–399): Alison Keith
Chapter 29 Women on the Bay of Naples (pages 400–413): Eve D'Ambra
Chapter 30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture (pages 414–422): Elizabeth Bartman
Chapter 31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt (pages 423–436): Christina Riggs
Chapter 32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature (pages 442–452): Rhiannon Ash
Chapter 33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period (pages 453–466): Rachel Meyers
Chapter 34 Women in Roman Britain (pages 467–477): Lindsay Allason?Jones
Chapter 35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West (pages 478–490): Emily A. Hemelrijk
Chapter 36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions (pages 491–501): Werner Riess
Chapter 37 Women in Late Antique Egypt (pages 502–512): Jennifer Sheridan Moss
Chapter 38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium (pages 513–523): Ioli Kalavrezou
Chapter 39 Becoming Christian (pages 524–538): Ross S. Kraemer