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Women in the Classical World Fantham

Women in the Classical World By Fantham

Women in the Classical World by Fantham


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This study integrates a wide range of material on the women of ancient Greece and Rome into one volume. It gathers primary written and visual documentation on the lives of these women and presents them in a chronological sequence, within their historical and cultural contexts.

Women in the Classical World Summary

Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Fantham

BL The only study to integrate such a wide range of materials on the women of ancient Greece and Rome into one accessible volume BL Written by a team of distinguished classical scholars and art historians Women in the Classical World gathers the most important primary written and visual sources on the lives of ancient women and presents them in a chronological sequence, within their historical and cultural contexts.

Women in the Classical World Reviews

This collaborative volume stakes a place for itself in the ever-expanding publications lists on women in antiquity as a novel kind of sourcebook...this volume gives considerable weight to visual as well as written material and attempts to set both within a coherent and contextualising account of the lives of ancient women Times Higher Education Supplement 'this volume offers a good introduction both to the range of source material relating to women in antiquity, and to some, at least, of the problems of interpretation it raises. Times Literary Supplement a combination of adroitly chosen texts in translation, including a good mixture of inscriptions, and most imaginatively selected...most impressive and will provide an earnest student with an invaluable tool. Greece and Rome Reviews 42 a wide-ranging collection of the most important primary sources for the lives of ancient women...The book contains a wealth of illustrations... This scholarly book would be a most useful resource for Classical Civilisation courses, both at University and A level... the book is very clearly laid out and I do recommend it as a library source. JACT review This collaborative volume stakes a place for itself in the ever expanding publication lists on women in antiquity as a novel kind of sourcebook. With its lavish and attractive illustrations, its juxtaposition of vase-painting with Greek poetry, coins with Roman historiiography, the volume is now likely to supercede that of Lefkowitz and Fant and be of considerable bibliographic use to students new to the field. Maria Wyke, University of Reading, Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. LXXXVIII 1996

About Fantham

H. Alan Shapiro's work includes Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece (Routledge, 1993) and Personifications in Greek Art, 600-400 BC (Akanthus-Verlag, 1993).

Table of Contents

I. WOMEN IN THE GREEK WORLD 1: Women in Archaic Greece: Talk in Praise and Blame 2: Excursus--Spartan Women: Women in a Warrior Society 3: Women in Classical Athens: Heroines and Housewives 4: Excursus--Amazons: Women in Control 5: The Hellenistic Period: Women in a Cosmopolitan World 6: Excursus--Medicine: The Proof of Anatomy II. WOMEN IN THE ROMAN WORLD 7: Republican Rome I: From Marriage by Capture to Partnership in War--The Proud Women of Early Rome 8: Excursus--Etruscan Women 9: Republican Rome II: Women in a Wealthy Society--Aristocratic and Working Women from the Second Century B.C.E. 10: Excursus--The New Woman: Representation and Reality 11: Women, Family, and Sexuality in the Age of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians 12: Excursus--The Women of Pompeii 13: Women of the High and Later Empire: Conformity and Diversity Chronology of the Greek and Roman Worlds 776 B.C.E.-313 C.E. List of Illustrations Index

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GOR004133924
9780195098624
0195098625
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Fantham
Used - Very Good
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Oxford University Press Inc
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