A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119025540 ISBN 13: 9781119025542

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.

• The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
• Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more
• Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation
• Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity
• Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity

From the Back Cover:

A COMPANION TO
WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME:

Lindsay Allason-Jones, Rhiannon Ash, Elizabeth Bartman, Anne Bielman, T. Corey Brennan, Elizabeth D. Carney, Cheryl A. Cox, Eve D'Ambra, Marguerite Deslauriers, A. A. Donohue, Cristiana Franco, Amy R. Gansell, Judith P. Hallett, Emily A. Hemelrijk, Madeleine M. Henry, Maura K. Heyn, Lora L. Holland, Vedia Izzet, Sharon L. James, Ioli Kalavrezou, Alison Keith, Ross S. Kraemer, Mireille M. Lee, Barbara Levick, Laura S. Lieber, Maria A. Liston, Rachel Meyers, Jennifer Sheridan Moss, Jenifer Neils, Marianna Nikolaïdou, Maryline Parca, Holt Parker, Werner Riess, Christina Riggs, Christina A. Salowey, Gillian Shepherd, Eva Stehle, Kasia Szpakowska, Lauren Talalay, Kathryn Topper, Monika Trümper.

EDITED BY
SHARON L. JAMES AND SHEILA DILLON

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World is the first interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world while weaving textual, visual, and archaeological evidence into its approach. Prominent scholars tackle the myriad problems inherent in the interpretation of the evidence, and consider the biases and interpretive categories inherited from centuries of scholarship. Essays and case studies cover an unprecedented breadth of chronological and geographical range, genres, and themes.

Illuminating and insightful, A Companion to Women in the Ancient World both challenges preconceived notions and paves the way for new directions in research on women in antiquity.

About the Author:

THE EDITORS

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy (2003) and the forthcoming Women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.

Sheila Dillon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University with a secondary appointment in the Department of Classical Studies. She is the author of Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture (2006) and The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (2010).