Research Catalog

Title

Images of women in antiquity / edited by Averil Cameron and Amélie Kuhrt.

Publication

London : Croom Helm, c1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cameron, Averil
• Kuhrt, Amélie, 1944-

Description

xi, 323 p. : ill., plans; 23 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 1880 v. Chr.-1000
• Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-500
• Geschichte Anfänge-1100
• Sozialgeschichte 3000 v. Chr.-500
• To 500
• Women > History > To 500

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 302-318.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Perceiving women -- Women : model for possession by Greek daemons / Ruth Padel -- Exit Atossa : images of women in Grek historiography on Persia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Women and witchcraft in ancient Assyria / Sue Rollin -- Women and power -- Influential women / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- The god's wife of Amun in the 18th dynasty in Egypt / Gay Robins -- Women at home -- Women and housing in Classical Greece : the archaeological evidence / Susan Walker -- Women on Athenian vases : problems of interpretation / Dyfri Williams -- The biology of women -- Bound to bleed : Artemis and Greek women / Helen King -- Hittite birth rituals / Jackie Pringle -- Discovering women -- Celtic women in the early Middle Ages / Wendy Davies -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach / Judith Herrin -- The economic role of women -- Bridewealth and dowry in Nuzi / Katarzyna Grosz -- Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- Women and wealth / Riet Van Bremen -- Women in religion and cult -- Goddesses, women, and Jezebel / Peter R. Ackroyd -- The Nadītu women of Sippar / Ulla Jeyes -- The role of Jewish women in the religion, ritual, and cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine / Léonie J. Archer -- Women in early Syrian Christiantiy / Susan Ashbrook Harvey.

ISBN

• 0709907419
• 0709907532 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 10858154
• SCSB-9895779

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library