Professor Bonnie MacLachlan

Women in Ancient Greece

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions. Beginning in the eighth century BCE, it covers archaic and Classical Athens, Etruscan Italy and the Roman Republic, concluding with the late Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity.

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History
• Verlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781441179630
• ISBN-10: 1441179631
• Artikelnr.: 31693246

Autorenporträt

Bonnie MacLachlan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Archaic Period
1. Where it All Began: Women in Hesiod
2. Aphrodite and Demeter: Goddesses in the Homeric Hymns
3. Women Divine and Mortal in the Homeric Epics
4. Women and Gender in the Melic and Lyric Poets
The Classical Period
5. The Lived Experiences of Girls and Women
6. Women and Property
7. Foreign Women
8. Prostitutes
9. Girls and Women and Religion
10. Gender Performed on the Athenian Stage
11. Dorian Girls and Women
12. Women and the State in Plato and Aristotle
13. Warrior Women
14. The Female Body
The Post-Classical Period
15. Women in the Hellenistic Era
Select Bibliography
Index of Ancient Authors and Works
General Index