Women′s Life in Greece and Rome – A Source Book in Translation 3e - Softcover

Lefkowitz, Mary R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801883105 ISBN 13: 9780801883101

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0801883105
• ISBN 13: 9780801883101
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 448