James / Dillon A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5480-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 704 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding AcademicTitle
Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single VolumeReference/Humanities & Social Sciences
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents aninterdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection ofnewly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study ofwomen in the ancient world.
* The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collectionof readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
* Explores a broad range of topics relating to women inantiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer,Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State,and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; HellenisticQueens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early WomenSaints; and many more
* Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historicalthemes of continuity, development, and innovation
* Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceivednotions relating to women in antiquity
* Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholarsassociated with the study of women in antiquity

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Sharon L.

Dillon, Sheila

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003), and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.
Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006), and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).