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Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity Content: Chapter 1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia (pages

Who reads A Companion to Women in the Ancient World?

Author

James, Sharon L. (editor);Dillon, Sheila (editor)

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444355000

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Sociology