Women in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Antiquity write by Stephanie Lynn Budin. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Women in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of ancient women. Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient world, gender studies, and women's roles throughout history.
Women and War in Antiquity
Women and War in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and War in Antiquity write by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris. This book was released on 2015-12-15. Women and War in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed. The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.
Images of Women in Antiquity
Images of Women in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Women in Antiquity write by Averil Cameron. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Images of Women in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book diverse roles for and attitudes to women in ancient societies are explored: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses and typically as eranged. The shifting focus is variously economic, social, biological, religious and artistic. The studies cover a wide geographic and chronological range, from the ancient Hittite kingdom to the Byzantine Empires. This book has been brought thoroughly up to date with the addition of a new introduction and addenda to individual chapters.
Women in Ancient Greece
Women in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Ancient Greece write by Sue Blundell. This book was released on 1995. Women in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.
Women in Antiquity: New Assessments
Women in Antiquity: New Assessments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Antiquity: New Assessments write by Richard Hawley. This book was released on 2002-11. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores and expands on scholarly debates on the status and representation women in antiquity; invaluable reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.
