New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World

by Ancona, Ronnie; Tsouvala, Georgia

• ISBN13: 9780190937638
• ISBN10: 0190937637
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-03-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent the next step in this interdisciplinary field.

The “new directions” for the study of women in antiquity included in this volume of newly commissioned essays feature new methodological questions to be asked, new time periods to be explored, new objects of study, as well as new information to be uncovered. In addressing these new directions, the editors have gathered a distinguished group of contributors that includes historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, and specialists in subfields like ancient medicine, ancient law, papyrology, and epigraphy. While some chapters focus primarily on Greece or Rome, others straddle or go beyond these artificial boundaries in interesting ways.

While the focus of the volume is antiquity, the issues it raises will be of interest also to those studying women and theorizing the study of women in other periods as well. The volume will help readers to see women in antiquity with fresh eyes and to view anew important issues related to women today.

Author Biography

Ronnie Ancona is Professor of Classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Time and the Erotic in Horace's Odes, Horace: Selected Odes and Satire 1.9, and Writing Passion: A Catullus Reader, co-editor of Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, and editor of A Concise Guide to Teaching Latin Literature.

Georgia Tsouvala is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University. She is co-author of Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History and A Brief History of Ancient Greece, and co-editor of The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Ronnie Ancona
2. Goddesses, a Whore-Wife and a Slave: Euripides' Hippolytus and Epistemic Injustice towards Women, Edith Hall
3. Periphr?n P?nelopeia: The Reception of Penelope in Fifth-Century Athens, H. A. Shapiro
4. The First Basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, Elizabeth D. Carney
5. Power and Patronage: Rethinking the Legacy of Artemisia II, Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
6. The Murder of Apronia, Barbara Levick
7. A Century of Women's History from the Papyri, Roger S. Bagnall
8. Cosmetics in Daily Life, Ann Ellis Hanson
9. Female Athletes in the Hellenistic and Roman Greek World, Georgia Tsouvala
10. Normalizing Illegality? The Roman Jurists and Underage Marriage, Bruce W. Frier
11. Augustus and the Economics of Adultery, Marilyn B. Skinner
12. Social Laws and Social Facts, Kristina Milnor
13. The Woman in the Street: Becoming Visible in Mid-Republican Rome, Amy Richlin

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