Women in AntiquityIan McAuslan, Peter Walcot This volume collects together 14 articles published in Greece and Rome during the last 20 years by leading authorities. They cover a wide breadth of interests including history, the law, mythology, literature, and religion in Graeco-Roman antiquity. A detailed and substantial introduction has been written by Dr Gillian Clark, an expert in the field, relating the articles to the development of gender studies since they were first published. The majority of the articles themselves have been updated to take account of the latest discoveries and developments. history, and sociology. |
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... scholars who advanced the argu- ments were most concerned with the morals of women in general ( or even Woman , as ... scholars think about women in antiquity , the inequality and prejudice from which they had suffered , and the ...
... scholars who advanced the argu- ments were most concerned with the morals of women in general ( or even Woman , as ... scholars think about women in antiquity , the inequality and prejudice from which they had suffered , and the ...
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... scholars . Sarah Pomeroy's pioneering survey , Goddesses , Whores , Wives and Slaves came out in the same year as Anthony Marshall's paper . Her title ( startling at the time ) confronted the reader with what had happened to women in ...
... scholars . Sarah Pomeroy's pioneering survey , Goddesses , Whores , Wives and Slaves came out in the same year as Anthony Marshall's paper . Her title ( startling at the time ) confronted the reader with what had happened to women in ...
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... scholars suggest that they were even much worse off than the women of earlier and later periods of Greek history . ' This paper proposes not to challenge this global judgement as a whole , but simply to focus upon one aspect of women's ...
... scholars suggest that they were even much worse off than the women of earlier and later periods of Greek history . ' This paper proposes not to challenge this global judgement as a whole , but simply to focus upon one aspect of women's ...
Contents
A Note on Annals 3 334 | 18 |
Roman Women | 36 |
An Essay on Menanders Aspis | 56 |
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