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List of Illustrations ixNotes on Contributors xviiPreface and Acknowledgments xxiiiAbbreviations xxvGlossary of Terms 00Maps 00

Introduction 1

PART I Women Outside Athens and Rome 5

Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory 7Lauren Talalay

1 Women in Ancient Mesopotamia 11Amy R. Gansell

2 Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt 25Kasia Szpakowska

3 Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Pathsof Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age 38Marianna Nikolaıdou

4 Women in Homer 54Cristiana Franco

5 Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal 66Vedia Izzet

PART II The Archaic and Classical Periods 79

Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl:The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus 81Sharon L. James

6 Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Conceptsin the Archaic and Classical Periods 84Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James

7 Women and Law 96Barbara Levick

8 Women and Medicine 107Holt Parker

9 Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidencefor Women’s Lives in Ancient Greece 125Maria A. Liston

10 Approaches to Reading Attic Vases 141Kathryn Topper

11 Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze 153Jenifer Neils

12 Interpreting Women in Archaicand Classical Greek Sculpture 167A. A. Donohue

13 Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece 179Mireille M. Lee

14 Women and Religion in Greece 191Eva Stehle

15 Women and Roman Religion 204Lora L. Holland

16 Women in Magna Graecia 215Gillian Shepherd

PART III Women in a Cosmopolitan World:The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods 229

Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines 231Sheila DillonCase Study IV: Domestic Female Slavesin Roman Comedy 235Sharon L. James

17 Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenisticand Roman Republican Periods 238Anne Bielman

18 Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: ReadingImages and Texts 249Christina A. Salowey

19 Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period 263Sheila Dillon

20 Women and Family in Menander 278Cheryl A. Cox

21 Gender and Space, “Public” and “Private” 288Monika Trumper

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22 Oikos Keeping: Women and Monarchy in theMacedonian Tradition 304Elizabeth D. Carney

23 The Women of Ptolemaic Egypt: The Viewfrom Papyrology 316Maryline Parca

24 Jewish Women: Texts and Contexts 329Laura S. Lieber

25 Women, Education, and Philosophy 343Marguerite Deslauriers

26 Perceptions of Women’s Power in the Late Republic:Terentia, Fulvia, and the Generation of 63 BCE 354T. Corey Brennan

PART IV The Beginnings of Empire 367

Case Study V: Vergil’s Dido 369Sharon L. James

27 Women in Augustan Rome 372Judith P. Hallett

28 Women in Augustan Literature 385Alison Keith

29 Women on the Bay of Naples 400Eve D’Ambra

30 Early Imperial Female Portraiture 414Elizabeth Bartman

31 Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Imagesof Women in Roman Egypt 423Christina Riggs

PART V From Empire to Christianity 437

Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra 439Maura K. Heyn

32 Women in Imperial Roman Literature 442Rhiannon Ash

33 Female Portraiture and Female Patronagein the High Imperial Period 453Rachel Meyers

34 Women in Roman Britain 467Lindsay Allason-Jones

35 Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West 478Emily A. Hemelrijk

36 Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on RomanFunerary Inscriptions 491Werner Riess

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37 Women in Late Antique Egypt 502Jennifer Sheridan-Moss

38 Representations of Women in Late Antiquityand Early Byzantium 513Ioli Kalavrezou

39 Becoming Christian 524Ross S. Kraemer

Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart From Egypt): A Bibliography 539References 545Index of Women 000Museum Index 000Index 000

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