This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.
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This admirable source book will be widely used.
(Times Educational Supplement July 2006)The modern reader can enter the ancient world through this text.
(London Review of Books Nov. 2006)Invaluable in providing not only 'mainstream' authors but much less accessible items.
(JACT Review January 2007)The choice of materials is excellent... Although the book is designed for classroom use, it provides an excellent introduction to the field as a whole.
(Choice 2007)Without doubt this book should be favorable received by students and scholars alike. Copious anecdotes, funerary inscriptions, legal and philosophical tracts serve to illuminate fully the position of women in Classical antiquity... Women's Life in Greece and Rome accomplishes with erudition, grace, and humor its aim.
(The History Teacher )In its third incarnation, Women's Life in Greece and Rome should remain a staple reference work for undergraduates and scholars alike.
(Bryn Mawr Classical Review )Throughout the history of this text, as the dust jacket for the first edition attests, 'what remains unchanged is the extraordinary power of these writings and the eloquence with which they speak for and about women in the ancient world.'
(Phyllis B. Katz New England Classical Journal )This text will continue to be of significant value to students and scholars alike who wish to research women in the ancient world.
(Marian Osbourne Berky Religious Studies Review )This commendable and successful work continues to generate plenty of discussion both in and out of the classroom and has clearly been a force behind the application of new methodologies in the area of women in antiquity.
(Lisa Hughes Mouseion: Journal of Classical Association of Canada )Language Notes
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Original Language: Greek, Latin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: Greek, Latin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This collection of writings from the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome focus on women's lives. However, do not buy this thinking you are getting women's views, that is rare in the record. Well organized and well cited, it provides an excellent teaching aid to the professor and a quick reference to scholars and laypersons. It is best used in an introductory history class or a women's studies class. Could be difficult to understand without basic background materials.
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This is a magnificent book if you are looking to find out what men wrote about women in the ancient period. It's comprehensive and deals with just about every type of source one can imagine. I've happily used it in women's history course and ancient history courses for many years.
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Pliny the Younger, Vestal Virgins, Pontifex Maximus, Twelve Tables, Asia Minor, Dio Cassius, Jesus Christ, Septimius Severus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Severus, Caesar Augustus, Sextus Tarquinius, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, British Museum, Diogenes Laertius, Legal Status, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minicia Marcella, Natural History, New York, Tiberius Gracchus, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Caecilia Trebulla, Emperor Nero New!
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Pliny the Younger, Vestal Virgins, Pontifex Maximus, Twelve Tables, Asia Minor, Dio Cassius, Jesus Christ, Septimius Severus, Valerius Maximus, Alexander Severus, Caesar Augustus, Sextus Tarquinius, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, British Museum, Diogenes Laertius, Legal Status, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minicia Marcella, Natural History, New York, Tiberius Gracchus, Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, Caecilia Trebulla, Emperor Nero New!
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- The History Of Rome Vol V by Livy on 6 pages
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 23, page 24, and Back Matter
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on page 11, page 13, and Back Matter
- Women of Trachis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles on page 12, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Medicine: V. 1 (Loeb Classical Library) (Bks.I-IV v. 1) by Celsus on page 268, and Back Matter
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