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Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity

Title
Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy ; with a new preface by the author.
Author
Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Publication
New York : Schocken Books, c1995.

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Description
xviii, 267 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
"'The first treatment to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism ... its position has hardly been challenged'-- Mary Beard"--Cover.
Subject
  • To 500
  • Women > History > To 500
  • Social conditions
  • Women
  • Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C
  • Rome > Social conditions
  • Greece
  • Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFD 95-13635
ISBN
  • 080521030X
  • 9780805210309
LCCN
95109446
OCLC
31925411
Author
Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Title
Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy ; with a new preface by the author.
Imprint
New York : Schocken Books, c1995.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-261) and index.
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Publisher description
Table of contents only
Contributor biographical information
Chronological Term
To 500
Research Call Number
JFD 95-13635
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