| Description |
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowlegments -- Introduction -- Part I Women in myth -- Myth: an introduction -- Creation myth -- Olympian godesses: virgins and mothers -- Women in the poems of Homer -- Amazons -- Part II The Archaic Age, 750-500 BC -- Women in an age of transition -- Women and the poets -- Women as poets: Sappho -- Women in stone -- Part III The Classical Age, 500-336 BC -- Women's bodies -- Women in Athenian law and society -- Lives of women in classical Athens -- Sparta and Gortyn -- Women and religion -- Part IV Ideas about women in the Classical Age -- Women in drama -- Women and the philosophers -- Women in classical sculpture -- Postscript The Hellenistic Age -- Notes, Bibliography, Index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Greece -- History.
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| ISBN |
0674954734 paperback $19.95 |
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