Women in Classical Antiquity (eBook)

From Birth to Death

Laura K. McClure (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118413654 (ISBN)

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An introduction to women and gender in the classical world that draws on the most recent research in the field

Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating and comparing the life situations of women across both cultures.

The author examines the lifecycle of women in ancient Greek and Rome beginning with how young females acquired the gendered characteristics necessary for adulthood. The text explores female adolescence, including concerns about virginity, medical views of the female body, religious roles, and education. Views of marriage, motherhood, sexual activity, adultery, and prostitution are also examined. In addition, the author explores how women exercised authority and the possibilities for their civic engagement. This important resource:

• Explores the formation of classical women's social identity through the life stages of birth, adolescence, marriage, childbirth, old age, and death
• Contains information on the most recent research in this rapidly evolving field
• Offers a review of the life course as a way to understand the social processes by which Greek and Roman females acquired gender traits
• Includes questions for review, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary of key terms

Written for academics and students of classical antiquity, Women in Classical Antiquity offers a general introduction to women and gender in the classical world.

Laura K. McClure, PhD, is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her diverse research interests include Athenian drama, the study of women in the ancient world, and classical reception. Her publications include books on the representation of women in Athenian drama and the courtesan in the Greek literary tradition.

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Abbreviations

The abbreviations used here are mostly those used in the third edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

General

BCE	Before Common Era, used in place of BC (“Before Christ”)

c.	circa, “approximately”

CE	Common Era, used in place of AD (Latin Anno Domini, “in the year of our Lord”)

Cf.	confer, “compare”

e.g.	exempli gratia, “for example”

fl.	floruit, “s/he flourished,” the general period in which a person lived

Fr.	Fragment (pl. Frr.)

Collections of Sources and Reference Works

AE	L’Année Épigraphique, published in Revue Archéologique and separately (1888–)

CEG	Carmina Epigraphica Graeca

CIL	Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

CMG	Corpus Medicorum Graecorum

IG	Inscriptiones Graecae

P. Oxy

Oxyrhynchus Papyri

SEG	Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum

TLE	Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae, a collection of Etruscan tomb inscriptions.

WO	U. Wilcken (ed.), Griechische Ostraka aus Aegypten und Nubien (Leipzig and Berlin, 1899)

Greek and Roman Authors and Texts

Aesch.

Aeschylus

Ag.

Agamemnon

Cho.

Choephori, “Libation Bearers”

Eum.

Eumenides

Anth. Gr.

Greek Anthology

Alc.

Alcman

Ap. Rhod.

Apollonius of Rhodes, Voyage of the Argo

App.

Appian

B Civ.

Civil Wars

Ar.	Aristophanes

Ach.

Acharnians

Eccl.

Ecclesiazusae, “Women of the Ecclesia”

Lys.

Lysistrata

Nub.

Nubes, “Clouds”

Thesm.

Thesmophoriazusae, “Women of the Thesmophoria”

Arch.

Archilochus

Arist.

Aristotle

Eth. Eud.

Eudemian Ethics

Eth. Nic.

Nichomachean Ethics

Gen. An.

Generation of Animals

Pol.

Politics

Rhet.

Rhetoric

Ath.	Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, “Dining Sophists”

Aug.

Augustus

RG

Res Gestae, “The Deeds of Divine Augustus”

Aul. Gell.

Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights

Catull.

Catullus

Cic.

Cicero

Att.

Letters to Atticus

Brut.

Brutus

Cael.

In Defense of Caelius

Har. resp.

On the Responses of the Haruspices

Mur.

In Defense of Murena

Phil.

Philippics

Tusc.

Tusculan Disputations

Verr.

Against Verres

Dem.	Demosthenes

[Dem.]

Pseudo‐Demosthenes

Dio	Dio Cassius, Roman History

Dion. Hal.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Ant. Rom.

Roman Antiquities

Eur.

Euripides

Alc.

Alcestis

Andr.

Andromache

Cap. Mel.

Captive Melanippe

Hec.

Hecuba

Hipp.

Hippolytus

IA

Iphigenia in Aulis

IT

Iphigeneia in Tauris

Med.

Medea

Pho.

Phoenician Women

Tro.

Trojan Women

Hdt.

Herodotus

Hes.

Hesiod

Op.

Works and Days

Theog.

Theogony

Herod.

Herodas

Hippoc.

Hippocrates

Mul.

Diseases of Women

Nat. Puer

On the Nature of the Child

Ster.

On Infertility

Virg.

On Virgins

Hom.

Homer

Il.

Iliad

Od.

Odyssey

Hom. Hymn Aphr.

Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Hom. Hymn. Dem.

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Hor.

Horace

Carm. saec.

Carmen Saeculare, “Secular Hymn”

Ep.

Epistles

Juv.

Juvenal

Luc.

Lucian

Dial. Meretr.

Dialogue of the Courtesans

Lys.

Lysias

Macr.

Macrobius

Sat.

Saturnalia

Mart.

Martial

Men.

Menander

Per.

Perikeiromene, “The Girl Who Gets Her Hair Cut Short”

Nep.	Cornelius Nepos, On Famous Men

Ov.

Ovid

Am.

Amores

Ars

Art of Love

Fast.

Fasti

Met.

Metamorphoses

Trist.

Tristia

Pers.

Persius

Pl.

Plato

Tim.

Timaeus

Plaut.

Plautus

Amph.

Amphitryo

Aul.

Aulularia

Cas.

Casina

Men.

Menaechmi

Mil.

Braggart Soldier

Plin.

Pliny the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Ancient & Classical History • Ancient Culture • Antike • Antike u. klassische Geschichte • A Teenage Girl in a Heroic World</p> • Athens and the Classical Period and women • Classical Studies • Female adolescence in Greece • Frau • Greek domestic space • Growing up female in the Greek family • Humanistische Studien • Klassisches Altertum • <p>Guide to Women in Classical Antiquity • Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations and women • protecting female purity in ancient Greece • Resource to Women in Classical Antiquity • Social Identity in the Ancient World • textile production in ancient Greece • Text on Women in Classical Antiquity • The family of ancient Sparta • The Greek family and household • The Rise of the Polis in the Archaic Period • Understanding Women in Classical Antiquity • Women in Greece in the Bronze Age • women in the iron age
• ISBN-13: 9781118413654 / 9781118413654