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Author Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Title Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy ; with a new preface by the author.

Publication Info. New York : Schocken Books, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  305.42 POMEROY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.42 POMEROY    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.40938 P785G    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents I. Goddesses and gods -- II. Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric epic -- III. The Dark Age and the Archaic period -- IV. Women and the city of Athens -- V. Private life in classical Athens -- VI. Images of women in the literature of classical Athens -- VII. Hellenistic women -- VIII. The Roman matron of the late Republic and early Empire -- IX. Women of the Roman lower classes -- X. The role of women in the religion of the Romans -- Epilogue: The elusive women of classical antiquity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-261) and index.
Summary "'The first treatment to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism ... its position has hardly been challenged'-- Mary Beard"--Cover.
Subject Women -- History -- To 500.
Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C.
Rome -- Social conditions.
ISBN 080521030X
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