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Author Vivante, Bella.

Title Daughters of Gaia : women in the ancient Mediterranean world / Bella Vivante.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HQ1127 .V56 2007    Available  ---
Description xxxi, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series Praeger series on the ancient world, 1932-1406
Praeger series on the ancient world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
Contents Ancient Mediterranean civilizations timeline -- Introduction -- Ancient goddesses : the primacy of female divinity -- Sanctifying women's lives : ancient women's rituals -- A woman's life in ancient cultures -- Health and medicine -- From home to market : the economic bases of women's lives -- From matrons to female kings : women who ruled from home and from the throne -- Women and war : symbol, object and warrior -- In her own voice 1 : women's philosophical writings -- In her own voice 2 : women's poetry.
Subject Women -- History -- To 500.
Women.
History.
Chronological Term To 500
Subject Women -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
Mediterranean Region.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical.
Women -- Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Sex role -- Mediterranean Region -- History.
Sex role.
Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Added Title Women in the ancient Mediterranean world
ISBN 0275982491 alkaline paper
9780275982492 alkaline paper