A Companion To Women In The Ancient World
FisicalBook
ISBN13:
9781119025542
$57.25
Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 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
- | Author: Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon
- | Publisher: Fisicalbook
- | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 650 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Misc. Supplies
- | ISBN-10: 1119025540
- | ISBN-13: 9781119025542
- Author:
- Sharon L. James, Sheila Dillon
- Publisher:
- Fisicalbook
- Publication Date:
- Jun 15, 2015
- Number of pages:
- 650 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Misc. Supplies
- ISBN-10:
- 1119025540
- ISBN-13:
- 9781119025542