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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/09/01
• Soggetto topico: Women - History - To 500 - Historiography; Women - Greece - Historiography; Women - Rome - Historiography; Civilization, Classical - Historiography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HawleyRichard <1963-> LevickBarbara
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women in antiquity
• ISBN: 1-134-82891-8; 1-280-32055-9; 0-585-45323-3; 0-203-42855-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451493703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II