Research Catalog

Title

Warrior women : the anonymous Tractatus de mulieribus / by Deborah Gera.

Author

Gera, Deborah Levine.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1997.

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Description

252 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

• This study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus De Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their intelligence, initiative and courage. The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in addition to the original text and an English translation - an examination of both the content and form of De Mulieribus, particularly as a catalogue of women.
• The times, methods, and purposes of the anonymous author are also investigated. Commentary-essays on the individual women then follow. A wide variety of sources are utilized in order to sketch the fullest possible portrait of each of these lively women.
• . This book, the very first study of De Mulieribus, is a useful introduction to a remarkable treatise.

Series Statement

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 126

Uniform Title

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 126.

Subjects

• Women soldiers > Greece > History
• Women > Greece > History
• Queens > Greece > History
• Tractatus de mulieribus claris in bello

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

I. An Introduction to the De Mulieribus. The Women of DM: A Survey. War, Weaving, and Wiles: Gender Roles. The Form, Sources, and Structure of DM. The Genre of DM. Catalogues of Women. The Anonymous Author: Some Speculations -- II. The Individual Women. Semiramis. Zarinaea. Nitocris the Egyptian. Nitocris the Babylonian. Argeia. Dido. Atossa. Rhodogyne. Lyde. Pheretime. Thargelia. Tomyris. Artemisia. Onomaris.

ISBN

9004106650 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96009610

OCLC

ocm34989952

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries