| Edition |
1st. Oxford pbk. |
| Description |
xii, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Women in archaic Greece : talk in praise and blame -- Spartan women : women in a warrior society -- Women in classical Athens : heroines and housewives -- Amazons : women in control -- The Hellenistic period : women in a cosmopolitan world -- Medicine : the "proof" of anatomy / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Republican Rome I : from marriage by capture to partnership in war, the proud women of early Rome -- Etruscan women / Larissa Bonfante -- Republican Rome II : women in a wealthy society, aristocratic and working women from the second century B.C.E. -- The "new women" : representation and reality -- Women, family, and sexuality in the age of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians -- The women of Pompeii -- Women of the high and later empire : conformity and diversity. |
| Subject |
Women -- History -- To 500 -- Sources.
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Women. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 500 |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
Women -- Greece -- History -- Sources.
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Greece. |
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Women -- Rome -- History -- Sources.
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| Indexed Term |
Women History |
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Roman Empire |
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Greece |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Fantham, Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0195098625 paperback |
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