Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801844754 ISBN 13: 9780801844751

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Now in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The resulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject.

Building on the third edition’s appendix of updates, the fourth adds many new and unusual texts and images, as well as such student-friendly features as a map and chapter overviews. Many notes and explanations have been revised with the non-classicist in mind.

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Review

"This admirable source book will be widely used." -- Times Educational Supplement

"The modern reader can enter the ancient world through this text." -- London Review of Books

"Invaluable in providing not only 'mainstream' authors but much less accessible items." -- JACT Review

"The choice of materials is excellent... Although the book is designed for classroom use, it provides an excellent introduction to the field as a whole." -- Choice

"Without doubt this book should be favorable received by students and scholars alike. Copious anecdotes, funerary inscriptions, legal and philosophical tracts serve to illuminate fully the position of women in Classical antiquity... Women's Life in Greece and Rome accomplishes with erudition, grace, and humor its aim." -- The History Teacher

"Throughout the history of this text, as the dust jacket for the first edition attests, 'what remains unchanged is the extraordinary power of these writings and the eloquence with which they speak for and about women in the ancient world.'" -- Phyllis B. Katz, New England Classical Journal

"This admirable source book will be widely used." -- Times Educational Supplement

"The modern reader can enter the ancient world through this text." -- London Review of Books

"Invaluable in providing not only 'mainstream' authors but much less accessible items." -- JACT Review

"The choice of materials is excellent... Although the book is designed for classroom use, it provides an excellent introduction to the field as a whole." -- Choice

Synopsis

A comprehensive collection of ancient documents describing women's lives in the ancient world and the variety of roles they played in society: working women, legal problems, pagan cults and religious rites, among others. This edition presents the work in the editors' own translations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801844754
• ISBN 13: 9780801844751
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Editor: Lefkowitz Mary R., Fant Maureen B.