Women and the Polis
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Women and the Polis

Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period

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Women and the Polis

Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period

About this book

This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by city institutions in honour of their female citizens and foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Based on the collected evidence, the authors analyse the phenomenon of honorific inscriptions for women as an important symptom of change of citizen mentality. Pointing to the political context in which such honours were bestowed, the phrasing of the texts, character of praiseworthy actions, and the fact that these honours were carved in stone and set up in conspicuous places in cities all reflect what the male part of the city populace thought about women in general and their presence in public spaces in particular. The book is a helpful resource for all those interested in ancient history, social history, and gender studies.

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Yes, you can access Women and the Polis by Krystyna Stebnicka,Aleksander Wolicki,Przemysław Siekierka in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Storia & Critica letteraria antica e classica. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9783110640618
eBook ISBN
9783110644289
Edition
1
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Critica letteraria antica e classica

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Table of Contents
  3. VOLUME 1
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Beginnings of Public Honours for Women in the Greek World
  7. Chapter 2 Honours for Women in the Hellenistic Period: New Phenomena in the New World
  8. Chapter 3 Honorific Language: Describing Women, Their Virtues, Merits, and Rewards in the Hellenistic World
  9. Chapter 4 Female Honours and the Evolution of Relations between the City and Family in the Hellenistic Period
  10. Chapter 5 Honours of the Imperial Era
  11. Chapter 6 Women Honoured for Professional Achievements
  12. Corpus of Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women
  13. Attica
  14. Corinthia
  15. Phleiasia
  16. Argolis
  17. Epidauria
  18. Lakonia
  19. Messenia
  20. Arkadia
  21. Elis
  22. Achaia
  23. Megaris
  24. Boiotia
  25. Phokis
  26. Eastern Lokris
  27. Western Lokris
  28. Aitolia
  29. Korkyra
  30. Kephallenia
  31. Thessaly
  32. Epeiros
  33. Macedonia
  34. Thrace
  35. Moesia Inferior
  36. North Shore of the Black Sea
  37. Delos
  38. Rhodos
  39. Lesbos
  40. Telos
  41. Nesos
  42. Anaphe
  43. Thera
  44. Pholegandros
  45. Melos
  46. Kos
  47. Sikinos
  48. Syros
  49. Paros
  50. Tenos
  51. Andros
  52. Chios
  53. Samos
  54. Amorgos
  55. Lemnos
  56. Thasos
  57. Crete
  58. Sicily
  59. Italy
  60. Volume 2
  61. Caria
  62. Ionia
  63. Lydia
  64. Aiolis
  65. Troas
  66. Mysia
  67. Bithynia and Pontus
  68. Galatia
  69. Phrygia
  70. Pisidia
  71. Pamphylia
  72. Lykia
  73. Isauria
  74. Cilicia
  75. Cappadocia
  76. Cyprus
  77. Syria and Iran
  78. Egypt
  79. Cyrenaica
  80. Addenda
  81. Indices
  82. Bibliography