Women in Classical Antiquity : From Birth to Death

by: McClure, L.K.

 
Women in classical antiquity from birth to death

Author:Laura McClure (Author)

Summary:Focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating and comparing the life situations of women across both cultures. The author examines the lifecycle of women in ancient Greek and Rome beginning with how young females acquired the gendered characteristics necessary for adulthood. The text explores female adolescence, including concerns about virginity, medical views of the female body, religious roles, and education. Views of marriage, motherhood, sexual activity, adultery, and prostitution are also examined. In addition, the author explores how women exercised authority and the possibilities for their civic engagement.

xxxii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Contents:
List of figures
List of charts
List of boxes
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Timeline of the Classical world
Maps. Introduction. 1 APproaches to women and gender in Classical antiquity : Ancient Greek and Roman sources
Gender in context: social identity in the Ancient world
Critical approaches
Structuralism
Psychoanalytic criticism
Feminist criticism
Cultural criticism
Conclusion
Questions for review
References
Further reading. Greece. 2 Introduction to ancient Greece : Greece in the Bronze Age: Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations
Iron Age
The rise of the pois in the Archaic Period
Athens and the Classical Period
Conclusion
Questions for review
Reference
Further reading. 3 The Greek family and household : Oikos: family and household
Greek domestic space
Textile production: women's work
Growing up female in the Greek family
The ritual activities of girls
The family in ancient Sparta
Conclusion
Questions for review
Reference
Further reading. 4 Female adolescence in Greece : Medical views of female adolescence
Aidos: protecting purity
Nausicaa: a teenage girl in a heroic world
Choruses of young girls
Brides of death
The Greek wedding
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 5 Greek marriage and motherhood : Pandora: the ambiguity of wives
Aphrodite: the power of female sexuality
Virtuous wives: Penelope and Alcestis
How to train a wife
The legal status of Athenian women
Pregnancy and childbirth
Mothers and children
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 6 Adultery and prostitution in Greece : Eros unbound
Helen: archetype of adultery
Adultery and Athenian law
Desperate housewives
Courtesans and prostitutes
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 7 Women, religion, and authority in Greece : Older women
Women as ritual agents
Priestesses
Women-only religious festivals
Women and funerary ritual
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. Interlude: women in the Hellenistic world. 8 Women in the Hellenistic world : The rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great
Olympias: mother of Alexander
The spread of Hellenism
Women and Hellenistic literature
Aphrodite and the female nude
Traces of women in Hellenistic Egypt
Ptolemaic queens: Arsinoe II
Ptolemaic queens: Berenice II
Conclusion
Questions for review
Reference
Further reading. Rome. 9 An introduction to ancient Rome : Roman foundation myth
The early republic
Expansion of Roman rule
Roman spectacles
The collapse of the republic
Julius Caesar
The transition to empire
Augustus and imperial Rome
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 10 The Roman family and household : Familia and domus
The family of Augustus
Roman domestic space
Lanificium: women's work
Growing up female in the Roman family
Girls and Roman religion
Educating girls
Conclusion
Questions for review
Reference
Further reading. 11 Female adolescence in Rome : Pudicitia: protecting purity
Medical views of female adolescence
Age at first marriage
Adolescent girls in Roman religion
Virgo docta
The Roman wedding
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 12 Roman marriage and motherhood : Marriage and property
Divorce, Roman style
Cultus: the art of self-fashioning
Managing the household
Roman views of contraception and abortion
Childbirth and nursing
Mothers and children
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 13 Adultery and female prostitution in Rome : Clodia Metelli: a woman of pleasure
Women in Latin love elegy
The Augustan law against adultery
Concubines
Female prostitution
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. 14 Women and public life in Rome : Benefactors and businesswomen
Female political protests
Women and Roman religion
Priestess
Matronal cults
Women and foreign cults
Conclusion
Questions for review
Further reading. Glossary
Index

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