Mothering and motherhood in ancient Greece and Rome /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, c2012.
Description:	xii, 260 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Motherhood -- Greece -- History. Mothers -- Greece -- History. Motherhood -- Rome -- History. Mothers -- Rome -- History. Motherhood. Mothers. Greece. Rome (Empire) History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8769487

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Other authors / contributors:	Petersen, Lauren Hackworth, 1965- Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia B.
ISBN:	9780292729902 (cloth : alk. paper) 0292729901 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780292739239 (e-book) 0292739230 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Govt.docs classification:	Z UA380.8 M856MO

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Public and Private Faces of Mothering and Motherhood in Classical Antiquity
Maternity and Miasma: Dress and the Transition from Parthenos to Gun\e
Motherhood as Teleia: Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine
Collaboration and Conflict: Discourses of Maternity in Hippocratic Gynecology and Embryology
Citizen-Mothers on the Tragic Stage
Working Girls: Mother-Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes
Tenderness or Taboo: Images of Breast-Feeding Mothers in Greek and Latin Literature
Mater Patriae: Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood
Mater Amoris: Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome
Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro: Mothers in Flavian Epic
Imperial Mothers and Monuments in Rome
Notes on Contributors
Index

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