| Description |
xvii, 420 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The socio-economic roles of women in Mycenaean Greece : a brief survey from evidence of the Linear B tablets / Jon-Christian Billigmeier and Judy A. Turner -- The divided world of Iliad VI / Marilyn Arthur Katz -- Sappho's private world / Eva Stehle -- Gardens of nymphs : public and private in Sappho's lyrics / Jack Winkler -- Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories / Carolyn Dewald -- The concept of women in Athenian drama / Helene P. Foley -- Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Could Greek women read and write? / Susan G. Cole -- Home before lunch : the emancipated woman in Theocritus / Frederick T. Griffiths -- Asclepiades' girl friends / Alan Cameron -- Women in Roman Egypt : (a preliminary study based on papyri) / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- Etruscan couples and their aristocratic society / Larissa Bonfante -- Two matrons of the late republic / Teresa Carp -- On Creusa, Dido, and the quality of victory in Virgil's Aeneid / Christine G. Perkell -- Approaches to the sources on adultery at Rome / Amy Richlin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Sappho.
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Women -- History -- To 500.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Foley, Helene P., 1942-
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| ISBN |
0677163703 |
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0677163705 |
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