James S.L., Dillon S. (eds.) A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 645 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-3679-2A 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 world
Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, 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; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more
Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation
Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity
Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquityWomen Outside Athens and Rome
The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives (Lauren Talalay)
Women in Ancient Mesopotamia (Amy R. Gansell)
Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt (Kasia Szpakowska)
Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age (Marianna Nikolaïdou)
Women in Homer (Cristiana Franco)
Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal (Vedia Izzet)
The Archaic and Classical Periods
Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus (Sharon L. James)
Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James)
Women and Law (Barbara Levick)
Women and Medicine (Holt Parker)
Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece (Maria A. Liston)
Approaches to Reading Attic Vases (Kathryn Topper)
Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze (Jenifer Neils)
Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture (A. A. Donohue)
Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece (Mireille M. Lee)
Women and Religion in Greece (Eva Stehle)
Women and Roman Religion (Lora L. Holland)
Women in Magna Graecia (Gillian Shepherd)
Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods
Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines (Sheila Dillon)
Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy (Sharon L. James)
Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods (Anne Bielman)
Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts (Christina A. Salowey)
Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period (Sheila Dillon)
Women and Family in Menander (Cheryl A. Cox)
Gender and Space, "Public" and "Private" (Monika Trümper)
Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition (Elizabeth D. Carney)
The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology (Maryline Parca)
Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts (Laura S. Lieber)
Women, Education, and Philosophy (Marguerite Deslauriers)
Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE (T. Corey Brennan)
The Beginnings of Empire
Vergil's Dido (Sharon L. James)
Women in Augustan Rome (Judith P. Hallett)
Women in Augustan Literature (Alison Keith)
Women on the Bay of Naples (Eve D'Ambra)
Early Imperial Female Portraiture (Elizabeth Bartman)
Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt (Christina Riggs)
From Empire to Christianity
Female Portraiture in Palmyra (Maura K. Heyn)
Women in Imperial Roman Literature (Rhiannon Ash)
Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period (Rachel Meyers)
Women in Roman Britain (Lindsay Allason-Jones)
Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West (Emily A. Hemelrijk)
Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions (Werner Riess)
Women in Late Antique Egypt (Jennifer Sheridan Moss)
Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium (Ioli Kalavrezou)
Becoming Christian (Ross S. Kraemer)