Research Catalog

Title

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy.

Author

Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Publication

New York : Schocken Books, 1975.

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Description

xiii, 265 p. [3] leaves of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Examines women's public and private lives, roles, activities, and influences and their social, economic, legal, political, and literary status in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds, from the late Bronze Age to the death of Constantine.

Alternative Title

Women in classical antiquity

Subjects

• To 500
• History
• Classical antiquity > Society > Role of women, to ca 500
• Women > history
• Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C
• Rome > Social conditions
• Women > History > To 500
• Social Conditions > history

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [251]-259.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Goddesses and gods -- Women in the Bronze Age and Homeric epic -- The Dark Age and the Archaic Period -- Women and the city of Athens -- Private life in classical Athens -- Images of women in the literature of classical Athens -- Hellenistic women -- The Roman matron of the late republic and early empire -- Women of the Roman lower classes -- The role of women in the religion of the Romans.

ISBN

• 0805235620 :
• 0709154011 :
• 0805205306 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^74008782^//r83

OCLC

• 1253906
• SCSB-14231045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library