Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity /

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Imprint:	New York : Schocken Books, c1995.
Description:	xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject:	Women -- History -- To 500. Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C. Rome -- Social conditions.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10514644

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Other authors / contributors:	American Council of Learned Societies.
ISBN:	0805235620
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-261) and index. Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2003. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Table of Contents:

1. Goddesses and Gods
2. Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric Epic
3. The Dark Age and the Archaic Period
4. Women and the City of Athens
5. Private Life in Classical Athens
6. Images of Women in the Literature of Classical Athens
7. Hellenistic Women
8. The Roman Matron of the Late Republic and Early Empire
9. Women of the Roman Lower Classes
10. The Role of Women in the Religion of the Romans
Epilogue: The Elusive Women of Classical Antiquity