| Description |
xi, 323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 302-318. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Perceiving women. Women : model for possession by Greek Daemons / Ruth Padel -- Exit Atossa : images of women in Greek historiography on Persia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Women and witchcraft in ancient Assyria / Sue Rollin. pt. 2. Women and power. Influential women / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- The God's wife of Amun in the 18th dynasty in Egypt / Gay Robins. pt. 3. Women at home. Women and housing in classical Greece : the archaeological evidence / Susan Walker -- Women on Athenian vases : problems of interpretation / Dyfri Williams. pt. 4. The biology of women. Bound to bleed : Artemis and Greek women / Helen King -- Hittite birth rituals / Jackie Pringle. pt. 5. Discovering women. Celtic women in the early Middle Ages / Wendy Davies -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach / Judith Herrin. pt. 6. The economic role of women. Bridewealth and dowry in Nuzi / Katarzyna Grosz -- Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- Women and wealth / Riet Van Bremen. pt. 7. Women in religion and cult. Goddesses, women and Jezebel / Peter R. Ackroyd -- The Naditu women of Sippar / Ulla Jeyes -- The role of Jewish women in the religion, ritual and cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine / Léonie J. Archer -- Women in early Syrian Christianity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- To 500.
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| Added Author |
Cameron, Averil.
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Kuhrt, Amélie, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0814317626 |
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0814317634 paperback |
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