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Titolo: |
Women's influence on classical civilization / / edited by Fiona McHardy and Eireann Marshall
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.4/09/01 |
Soggetto topico: | Women - History - To 500 |
Women - Greece | |
Women - Rome | |
Civilization, Classical | |
Altri autori: |
McHardyFiona
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Note generali: | Smultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The logistics of gender from classical philosophy / Grainne McLaughlin -- Matriot games? Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and the forging of family-oriented political values / Judith P. Hallett -- Politics of inclusion/exclusion in Attic Tragedy / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Exemplary housewife or luxurious slut: cultural representations of women in the Roman economy / Suzanne Dixon -- Matronly patrons in the early Roman Empire: the case of Salvia Postuma / Margaret Woodhull -- Women's influence on revenge in Ancient Greece/ Fiona McHardy -- A woman's influence on a Roman text: Marcia and Seneca / Rebecca Langlands -- Women and the transmission of Libyan culture / Eireann Marshall -- Galla Placidia: conduit of culture? / Mary Harlow -- Gender and cultural identity in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male.Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women.Women's Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influ |
Titolo autorizzato: | Women's influence on classical civilization ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-134-39189-7 |
0-203-35086-3 | |
1-134-39190-0 | |
1-280-06723-3 | |
9786610067237 | |
0-203-20965-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827928903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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