Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors xvi
Preface and Acknowledgments xxiii
Abbreviations xxiv
Maps xxvi
Introduction 1
Part I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5
Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory: Debates and Perspectives 7 Lauren Talalay
1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11 Amy R. Gansell
2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25 Kasia Szpakowska
3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38 Marianna Nikolaïdou
4 Women in Homer 54 Cristiana Franco
5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66 Vedia Izzet
Part II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79
Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81 Sharon L. James
6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods 84 Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James
7 Women and Law 96 Barbara Levick
8 Women and Medicine 107 Holt Parker
9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece 125 Maria A. Liston
10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141 Kathryn Topper
11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153 Jenifer Neils
12 Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture 167 A. A. Donohue
13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179 Mireille M. Lee
14 Women and Religion in Greece 191 Eva Stehle
15 Women and Roman Religion 204 Lora L. Holland
16 Women in Magna Graecia 215 Gillian Shepherd
Part III Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229
Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231 Sheila Dillon
Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy 235 Sharon L. James
17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods 238 Anne Bielman
18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts 249 Christina A. Salowey
19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263 Sheila Dillon
20 Women and Family in Menander 278 Cheryl A. Cox
21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” 288 Monika Trümper
22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in the Macedonian Tradition 304 Elizabeth D. Carney
23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The View from Papyrology 316 Maryline Parca
24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329 Laura S. Lieber
25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343 Marguerite Deslauriers
26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354 T. Corey Brennan
Part IV The Beginnings of Empire 367
Case Study V: Vergil’s Dido 369 Sharon L. James
27 Women in Augustan Rome 372 Judith P. Hallett
28 Women in Augustan Literature 385 Alison Keith
29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400 Eve D’Ambra
30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414 Elizabeth Bartman
31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt 423 Christina Riggs
Part V From Empire to Christianity 437
Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439 Maura K. Heyn
32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442 Rhiannon Ash
33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period 453 Rachel Meyers
34 Women in Roman Britain 467 Lindsay Allason-Jones
35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478 Emily A. Hemelrijk
36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions 491 Werner Riess
37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502 Jennifer Sheridan Moss
38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium 513 Ioli Kalavrezou
39 Becoming Christian 524 Ross S. Kraemer
Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart from Egypt): A Bibliography 539
References 545
Index of Women 605
Subject Index 611