Pomeroy Sarah. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity

New York: Schocken Books, 1995. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 080521030X; ISBN13: 978-0805210309Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. The book was one of the first English works on women's history in any period. It has been used as a textbook in many university-level courses on women in classical antiquity.Chronological TableGoddesses and Gods
Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric Epic
The Dark Age and the Archaic Period
Women and the City of Athens
Private Life in Classical Athens
Images of Women in the Literature of Classical Athens
Hellenistic Women
The Roman Matron of the Late Republic and Early Empire
Women of the Roman Lower Classes
The Role of Women in the Religion of the RomansEpilogue: The Elusive Women of Classical AntiquityNotes
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