Women in the Classical World: Image and Text - Softcover

Fantham; Foley; Kampen; Pomeroy; Shapiro

 
9780195098624: Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

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Only book on ancient women that integrates a wide range of textual and visual materials into one volume

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Elaine Fantham is Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. Helene Peet Foley is Olin Professor of Classics at Barnard College. Natalie Boymel Kampen is Professor of Women's Studies and Art History at Barnard College. Sarah B. Pomeroy is Professor of History at Columbia University. H. Alan Shapiro is Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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The lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome, form slaves and prostitutes, to Athenian housewives, to 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 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, it it an indispensable addition t any course in ancient history, classics, Greek and Roman art history, or women's studies.

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9780195067279: Women in the Classical World: Image and Text

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ISBN 10:  0195067274 ISBN 13:  9780195067279
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994
Hardcover