Women in the Classical World

Times Higher Education Supplement 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

`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

Greece and Rome Reviews 42 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.

JACT review 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.

Maria Wyke, University of Reading, Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. LXXXVIII 1996 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.

<br>Elaine Fantham is Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. Helene Peet Foley is Olin Professor of Classics at Barnard College. Natalie Boymel Kampen is Professor of Women's Studies and Art History at Barnard College. Sarah B. Pomeroy is Professor of History at Columbia University. H. AlanShapiro is Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.<br>

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