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9780801883095

Women's Life in Greece And Rome

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801883095

  • ISBN10:

    0801883091

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-08-23
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary

This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

Author Biography

Mary R. Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities emerita at Wellesley. Maureen B. Fant is an independent writer and scholar living in Rome.

Table of Contents

Women's voices
Female poets
Men's words in women's mouths
Men's opinions
Praise
Invective
Philosophers on the role of women
Legal status in the Greek world
Crete
Athens
Amorgos
Sparta
Egypt
Legal status in the Roman world
Early Rome
The Roman jurists
Roman Egypt
Public life
Women's bravery in legend and history
Political life
Women's organisations
Honorific inscriptions
Private life
Correct behaviour
Education of females
Intellectual life
Women and women
Women and men
Babies
Parents and children
The home
Celebrations
Epitaphs
Occupations
Apprenticeship
Self-employment
Prostitution
Women gladiators
The arts and entertainment
Skilled labour
Sales and services
Other records of women's employment
Medicine and anatomy
Philosophers observe nature
Writings of practising physicians
Writings on medical matters by laymen
Case histories from inscriptions
Female medical practitioners
Religion
Dionysus/Bacchus
Hera
Demeter
Athena
Artemis
Aphrodite
Asclepius
Serapis
Vesta
Bona Dea
Witchcraft
Priestesses
Christianity
Late pagan 'saints'
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