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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815504703321

Titolo

A companion to women in the ancient world / / edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-4443-5500-7

1-118-38063-0

1-78268-508-1

1-283-43569-1

9786613435699

1-4443-5502-3

1-4443-5480-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 616 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to the ancient world

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesSharon L

DillonSheila

Disciplina

305.4093

Soggetti

Women - History - To 500

Civilization, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Women outside Athens and Rome -- pt. 2. The archaic and classical periods -- pt. 3. Women in a cosmopolitan world : the Hellenistic and late republican periods -- pt. 4. The beginnings of empire -- pt. 5. From empire to Christianity.

Sommario/riassunto

Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic TitleAwarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social SciencesA 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 worldExplores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity,