Women's History and Ancient History
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Women's History and Ancient History

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Women's History and Ancient History

About this book

This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women’s public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships.

Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power — usually, but not always, through their relationship to male leaders — and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women’s public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology.

The contributors are Sarah B. Pomeroy, Jane McIntosh Snyder, Marilyn M. Skinner, Cynthia B. Patterson, Ann Ellis Hanson, Lesley Dean–Jones, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, and Shaye J.D. Cohen.

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Index

  • Abduction: of Spartan brides, 69 (n. 49)
  • Abortion, 74, 98 (n. 11), 101 (nn. 40, 41); diseases resulting from, 80
  • Achaean League, 138
  • Achilles, 41 (n. 11); and Briseis, 57–58
  • Adea-Eurydice (wife of Philip Arrhidaeus), 160–61, 163
  • Adonia (festival), 25, 41 (n. 16)
  • Adoption: use of by Romans, 178, 186, 190
  • Adultery, 143, 193
  • Aelius Aristides, 261
  • Aeschylus: Oresteia, 60–61, 72 (n. 71)
  • Aesop: childbirth in, 90
  • Agamemnon, 43 (n. 26), 57
  • Agariste (of Sikyon), 50
  • Agesilaus (tyrant of Sparta), 138–39
  • Agesistrata (mother of Agis), 145, 146, 148
  • Agiatis, 144, 148
  • Agis IV (king of Sparta), 138, 145
  • Agrippa, 188
  • Agrippina the Younger, 177, 182, 247 (n. 29)
  • Airs, Waters, Places (Hippocratic Corpus), 75, 117, 126
  • Alcaeus: imagery of, 17; Fragment 34a, 7
  • Alcaeus, of Messene, 165 (n. 11)
  • Alexander IV (son of Alexander the Great), 157
  • Alexander the Great, 154–55; use of titles by, 167 (n. 21)
  • Alochos (bedmate), 50, 56–57, 71 (n. 58)
  • Amastris (niece of Darius), 169 (n. 42)
  • Anakaluptēria (unveiling), 54–56, 65 (n. 24); in vase painting, 68 (n. 40)
  • Anatomy, female: in Hippocratic Corpus, 105 (n. 73), 124–25; cultural aspects of, 111–30; inferiority of, 113, 115, 126–27, 129–30, 131 (n. 6), 133 (n. 25); in Aristotle, 125–27
  • Ancient Medicine. See On Ancient Medicine
  • Andromache: wedding of, 2
  • Antigonus Doson, 139
  • Antigonus I, of Macedon, 155; use of titles by, 157
  • Antipater of Sidon, 40 (n. 7), 44 (n. 33)
  • Antipater of Thessalonica, 22
  • Antonine dynasty, 182, 219; art of, 231; succession of, 235, 243; women in, 240–41
  • Antoninus Pius, 182–83; column base of, 240
  • Antonius, Gaius, 212 (n. 44)
  • Antonius, Lucius, 203–5, 212 (n. 44), 214 (n. 62)
  • Antony, Marc, 197; confli...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Women’s History and Ancient History
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Public Occasion and Private Passion in the Lyrics of Sappho of Lesbos
  7. Nossis Thēlyglōssos: The Private Text and the Public Book
  8. Marriage and the Married Woman in Athenian Law
  9. Continuity and Change: Three Case Studies in Hippocratic Gynecological Therapy and Theory
  10. The Cultural Construct of the Female Body in Classical Greek Science
  11. Women in the Spartan Revolutions of the Third Century B.C. (Translated by Sarah B. Pomeroy)
  12. “What’s in a Name?”: The Emergence of a Title for Royal Women in the Hellenistic Period
  13. Family Behavior of the Roman Aristocracy, Second Century B.C.–Third Century A.D. (Translated by Ann Cremin)
  14. Fulvia Reconsidered
  15. Between Public and Private: Women as Historical Subjects in Roman Art
  16. Plancia Magna of Perge: Women’s Roles and Status in Roman Asia Minor
  17. Menstruants and the Sacred in Judaism and Christianity
  18. Contributors
  19. Index