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New directions in the study of women in the Greco-Roman world / edited by Ronnie Ancona and Georgia Tsouvala.

Contributor(s): Ancona, Ronnie, 1951- [editor.] | Tsouvala, Georgia [editor.]
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiv, 278 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190937638Subject(s): Women -- History -- To 500 | Women -- Greece -- Social conditions | Women -- Rome -- Social conditions | Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C | Rome -- Social conditions | Greece -- Intellectual life | Rome -- Intellectual life
Contents:
1. Introduction, Ronnie Ancona 2. Goddesses, a Whore-Wife and a Slave: Euripides' Hippolytus and Epistemic Injustice towards Women, Edith Hall 3. Periphrôn Pênelopeia: The Reception of Penelope in Fifth-Century Athens, H. A. Shapiro 4. The First Basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, Elizabeth D. Carney 5. Power and Patronage: Rethinking the Legacy of Artemisia II, Walter D. Penrose, Jr. 6. The Murder of Apronia, Barbara Levick 7. A Century of Women's History from the Papyri, Roger S. Bagnall 8. Cosmetics in Daily Life, Ann Ellis Hanson 9. Female Athletes in the Hellenistic and Roman Greek World, Georgia Tsouvala 10. Normalizing Illegality? The Roman Jurists and Underage Marriage, Bruce W. Frier 11. Augustus and the Economics of Adultery, Marilyn B. Skinner 12. Social Laws and Social Facts, Kristina Milnor 13. The Woman in the Street: Becoming Visible in Mid-Republican Rome, Amy Richlin Bibliography
Summary: "Through a set of original essays, this volume showcases new directions in the well-established field of the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (1975) introduced scholars, students, and general readers to a new area of inquiry. Building upon and moving beyond that seminal work, the contributions to this volume together represent a next step in this interdisciplinary field. Contributors, all of whom have been influenced directly or indirectly by Pomeroy's Goddesses and other work, include scholars with training in the study of history, literature, law, art, medicine, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with new eyes and to view anew issues related to women today"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction, Ronnie Ancona
2. Goddesses, a Whore-Wife and a Slave: Euripides' Hippolytus and Epistemic Injustice towards Women, Edith Hall
3. Periphrôn Pênelopeia: The Reception of Penelope in Fifth-Century Athens, H. A. Shapiro
4. The First Basilissa: Phila, daughter of Antipater and wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, Elizabeth D. Carney
5. Power and Patronage: Rethinking the Legacy of Artemisia II, Walter D. Penrose, Jr.
6. The Murder of Apronia, Barbara Levick
7. A Century of Women's History from the Papyri, Roger S. Bagnall
8. Cosmetics in Daily Life, Ann Ellis Hanson
9. Female Athletes in the Hellenistic and Roman Greek World, Georgia Tsouvala
10. Normalizing Illegality? The Roman Jurists and Underage Marriage, Bruce W. Frier
11. Augustus and the Economics of Adultery, Marilyn B. Skinner
12. Social Laws and Social Facts, Kristina Milnor
13. The Woman in the Street: Becoming Visible in Mid-Republican Rome, Amy Richlin
Bibliography

"Through a set of original essays, this volume showcases new directions in the well-established field of the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (1975) introduced scholars, students, and general readers to a new area of inquiry. Building upon and moving beyond that seminal work, the contributions to this volume together represent a next step in this interdisciplinary field. Contributors, all of whom have been influenced directly or indirectly by Pomeroy's Goddesses and other work, include scholars with training in the study of history, literature, law, art, medicine, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with new eyes and to view anew issues related to women today"-- Provided by publisher.