Women in the Classical World : Image and Text

Image and Text

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, History, Ancient History
Cover of the book Women in the Classical World : Image and Text by Elaine Fantham;Helene Peet Foley;Natalie Boymel Kampen;Sarah B. Pomeroy;H. A. Shapiro, Oxford University Press, USA
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Author: Elaine Fantham;Helene Peet Foley;Natalie Boymel Kampen;Sarah B. Pomeroy;H. A. Shapiro ISBN: 9780199879212
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: September 15, 1994
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Elaine Fantham;Helene Peet Foley;Natalie Boymel Kampen;Sarah B. Pomeroy;H. A. Shapiro
ISBN: 9780199879212
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: September 15, 1994
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete an Athenian woman who died young; a great number of Roman wives were found guilty of poisoning their husbands but was it accidental food poisoning or disease or something more sinister. Apart from the legends of Cleopatra Dido and Lucretia and images of graceful maidens dancing on urns the evidence about the lives of women of the classical world--visual archaeological and written--has remained uncollected and uninterpreted. Now the lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome exploring the lives of slaves and prostitutes Athenian housewives and Rome's imperial family. The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry vase painting legislation medical treatises architecture religious and funerary art women's ornaments historical epics political speeches even ancient coins--to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time. Written by leading experts in the fields of ancient history and art history women's studies and Greek and Roman literature the book's chronological arrangement allows the changing roles of women to unfold over a thousand-year period beginning in the eighth century B.C.E. Both the art and the literature highlight women's creativity sexuality and coming of age marriage and childrearing religious and public roles and other themes. Fascinating chapters report on the wild behavior of Spartan and Etruscan women and the mythical Amazons; the changing views of the female body presented in male-authored gynecological treatises; the "new woman" represented by the love poetry of the late Republic and Augustan Age; and the traces of upper- and lower-class life in Pompeii miraculously preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Provocative and surprising Women in the Classical World is a masterly foray into the past and a definitive statement on the lives of women in ancient Greece and Rome.

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Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete an Athenian woman who died young; a great number of Roman wives were found guilty of poisoning their husbands but was it accidental food poisoning or disease or something more sinister. Apart from the legends of Cleopatra Dido and Lucretia and images of graceful maidens dancing on urns the evidence about the lives of women of the classical world--visual archaeological and written--has remained uncollected and uninterpreted. Now the lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome exploring the lives of slaves and prostitutes Athenian housewives and Rome's imperial family. The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry vase painting legislation medical treatises architecture religious and funerary art women's ornaments historical epics political speeches even ancient coins--to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time. Written by leading experts in the fields of ancient history and art history women's studies and Greek and Roman literature the book's chronological arrangement allows the changing roles of women to unfold over a thousand-year period beginning in the eighth century B.C.E. Both the art and the literature highlight women's creativity sexuality and coming of age marriage and childrearing religious and public roles and other themes. Fascinating chapters report on the wild behavior of Spartan and Etruscan women and the mythical Amazons; the changing views of the female body presented in male-authored gynecological treatises; the "new woman" represented by the love poetry of the late Republic and Augustan Age; and the traces of upper- and lower-class life in Pompeii miraculously preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Provocative and surprising Women in the Classical World is a masterly foray into the past and a definitive statement on the lives of women in ancient Greece and Rome.

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