Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation - Softcover

Lefkowitz, Professor Mary R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080182866X ISBN 13: 9780801828669

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed collection provides a rare look into the private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes -- wet nurses, prostitutes, poets, gladiators, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition offers new texts in nearly every section, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, but also on property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and witchcraft.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary R. Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities at Wellesley. Maureen B. Fant is an independent writer and scholar living in Rome.

Review:

"This admirable source book will be widely used." -- Times Educational Supplement

"The modern reader can enter the ancient world through this text." -- London Review of Books

"Invaluable in providing not only 'mainstream' authors but much less accessible items." -- JACT Review

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 080182866X
• ISBN 13: 9780801828669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294