Women In Ancient Greece And Rome

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz,Maureen B. Fant
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0801844754

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Women's Life in Greece & Rome by Mary R. Lefkowitz,Maureen B. Fant Pdf

This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women in Ancient Greece by Paul Chrystal Pdf

Examines women whose influence was positive, as well as those whose reputations were more notoriousSupremely well researched from many different historical sourcesSuperbly illustrated with photographs and drawings Women in Ancient Greece is a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded, and the restrictions imposed on their actions. Given that ancient Greece was very much a man’s world, most books on ancient Greek society tend to focus on men; this book redresses the imbalance by shining the spotlight on that neglected other half. Women had significant roles to play in Greek society and culture – this book illuminates those roles. Women in Ancient Greece asks the controversial question: how far is the assumption that women were secluded and excluded just an illusion? It answers it by exploring the treatment of women in Greek myth and epic; their treatment by playwrights, poets and philosophers; and the actions of liberated women in Minoan Crete, Sparta and the Hellenistic era when some elite women were politically prominent. It covers women in Athens, Sparta and in other city states; describes women writers, philosophers, artists and scientists; it explores love, marriage and adultery, the virtuous and the meretricious; and the roles women played in death and religion. Crucially, the book is people-based, drawing much of its evidence and many of its conclusions from lives lived by historical Greek women.

Author : Ellen Greene
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0806136642

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Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome by Ellen Greene Pdf

Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of their poetry survives only in fragmentary form. This pathbreaking volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome. In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly “feminine” perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention, the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.

Author : Sue Blundell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674954734

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Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell Pdf

Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.

Author : Sandra Boehringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000396164

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Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sandra Boehringer Pdf

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical, ethereal Sapphic love, or stereotyped as "Amazons" or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous, precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho, Plato, Ovid, Juvenal, and many other lyric poets, satirists, and astrological writers, in search of the prevailing norms, constraints, and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply—a society "before sexuality"—where female homosexuality looks very different, but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time, Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender, and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

Author : Marjorie Lightman,Benjamin Lightman
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438107943

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A to Z of Ancient Greek and Roman Women by Marjorie Lightman,Benjamin Lightman Pdf

Presents a biographical dictionary profiling more than 500 important ancient Greek and Roman women, including when and where they lived, and notable accomplishments.

Author : Bonnie MacLachlan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441179630

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Women in Ancient Greece by Bonnie MacLachlan Pdf

A rich collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions.

Author : Maurizio Bettini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226039961

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Women and Weasels by Maurizio Bettini Pdf

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s birth—and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. Following this story as it is retold over centuries in literature and art, Women and Weasels takes us on a journey through mythology and ancient belief, revising our understanding of myth, heroism, and the status of women and animals in Western culture. Maurizio Bettini recounts and analyzes a variety of key literary and visual moments that highlight the weasel’s many attributes. We learn of its legendary sexual and childbearing habits and symbolic association with witchcraft and midwifery, its role as a domestic pet favored by women, and its ability to slip in and out of tight spaces. The weasel, Bettini reveals, is present at many unexpected moments in human history, assisting women in labor and thwarting enemies who might plot their ruin. With a parade of symbolic associations between weasels and women—witches, prostitutes, midwives, sisters-in-law, brides, mothers, and heroes—Bettini brings to life one of the most venerable and enduring myths of Western culture.

Author : Maureen B. Fant,Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472578488

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Women's Life in Greece and Rome by Maureen B. Fant,Mary R. Lefkowitz Pdf

This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The resulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject. The brand new design of the fourth edition integrates the third edition's appendix and adds many new and unusual texts and images, as well as such student-friendly features as a map and chapter overviews. Many notes and explanations have been revised with the non-classicist in mind. Its readings cover women's legal status, domestic conditions, health issues, and relations with other people. The emphasis throughout is not so much on what ancient writers thought about women, as on what women actually did, both within the home and outside it, from their intellectual achievements, benefactions, and religious roles, to humble jobs and acts of physical and moral courage.

Author : Kristen Rajczak Nelson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482428162

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20 Fun Facts About Women in Ancient Greece and Rome by Kristen Rajczak Nelson Pdf

In recent years, scholars have taken a closer look at the women of the ancient world and found poets, landowners, athletes, and more—not just wives. However, for most women, their household was their domain and their husband their master. Readers learn about both perspectives in an engaging format of fun facts, as well as about famous women in power, important goddesses, and many other interesting details of the time period. Historical images of women in ancient Greece and Rome and full-color photographs of the places they lived enhance curriculum-supporting content and graphic organizers that further explore important concepts.

Author : Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Alison Keith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421417622

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Women and War in Antiquity by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris,Alison Keith Pdf

Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.

Author : Marjorie Lightman,Benjamin Lightman
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0816031126

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Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women by Marjorie Lightman,Benjamin Lightman Pdf

Profiles the lives of women from archaic Greece in the seventh century BCE to the fall of Rome in 476 CE, including poet Julia Balbilla, Boudicca, Cleopatra III, Sappho, and Eurydice.

Author : Michael Massey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:1036929688

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Women in Ancient Greece and Rome by Michael Massey Pdf

Author : Ian Michael Plant
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0806136219

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Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome by Ian Michael Plant Pdf

Despite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this period has survived. Edited by I. M. Plant, Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome is a comprehensive anthology of the surviving literary texts of women writers from the Graeco-Roman world that offers new English translations from the works of more than fifty women. From Sappho, who lived in the seventh century B.C., to Eudocia and Egeria of the fifth century A.D., the texts presented here come from a wide range of sources and span the fields of poetry and prose. Each author is introduced with a critical review of what we know about the writer, her work, and its significance, along with a discussion of the texts that follow. A general introduction looks into the problem of the authenticity of some texts attributed to women and places their literature into the wider literary and social contexts of the ancient Graeco-Roman world.

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Lisa Auanger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292774346

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Among Women by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Lisa Auanger Pdf

Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women's deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women's relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt. Drawing on developments in feminist theory, gay and lesbian studies, and queer theory, as well as traditional textual and art historical methods, the contributors to this volume examine representations of women's lives with other women, their friendships, and sexual subjectivity. They present new interpretations of the evidence offered by the literary works of Sappho, Ovid, and Lucian; Bronze Age frescoes and Greek vase painting, funerary reliefs, and other artistic representations; and Egyptian legal documents.