Ebook: A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
Author: Sharon L. James Sheila Dillon
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
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
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