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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451493703321

Titolo

Women in antiquity : new assessments / / edited by Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-82891-8

1-280-32055-9

0-585-45323-3

0-203-42855-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HawleyRichard <1963->

LevickBarbara

Disciplina

305.4/09/01

Soggetti

Women - History - To 500 - Historiography

Women - Greece - Historiography

Women - Rome - Historiography

Civilization, Classical - Historiography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the First International Conference on Women in the Ancient World, held Sept. 1-4, 1993 at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelinaries; Contents; 1 From daily life' to demography'; 2 Ideology and the status of women' in ancient Greece; 3 Approaching women through myth: vital tool or self-delusion?; 4 Signifying difference: the myth of Pandora; 5 The cults of Demeter and Kore; 6 Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens; 7 Women's identity and the family in the classical polis; 8 Some Pythagorean female virtues; 9 Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology

Sommario/riassunto

Explores and expands on scholarly debates on the status and representation women in antiquity; invaluable reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.