Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)

Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D, is professor by special appointment in Ancient religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She works on religions of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Roman Near East.Martijn Icks, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on Roman emperors and their representation, on the reception of Classical culture and on character assassination as a cross-cultural phenomenon.Sofie Remijsen, Ph.D is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on various aspects of social and cultural history in the Mediterranean, including sport and festivals. Currently she is leading a project on Lived Time in Late-Antique Egypt.Contributors are: Josine H. Blok, Lucinda Dirven, Anique Hamelink, Martijn Icks, Lien Foubert, Sanne Klaver, Onno M. van Nijf, Sofie Remijsen, Evelien J.J. Roels, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Emila Salerno, Daniëlle Slootjes, Rolf Strootman, Marlena Whiting.

• List of FiguresIntroductionLucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie RemijsenComplete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic WorldRolf Strootman2 Empresses Taking ChargeThe Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary SourcesMartijn Icks3 Zenobia versus MawiaA Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab WorldLucinda Dirven4 Image and RealityThe Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress TheodoraDaniëlle Slootjes5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the AcropolisA Close Reading of the Hekatompedon InscriptionJosine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic SphereSport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under RomeOnno M. van Nijf7 Women on TimeGendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman EgyptSofie Remijsen8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes BacchaeBacchus’ Women in RomeEmilia Salerno9 Discourses of a Changing SocietyWomen’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil WarLien Foubert10 Present in Public LetteringThe Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia MinorEvelien J.J. Roels11 Publicly LuxuriousBanqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman BritainAnique Hamelink12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable DressThe Women of Dura-EuroposSanne Klaver13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and ArabiaMarlena Whiting

"Contributors to this volume were invited to build on Hemelrijk’s work in relation to their own respective research topics. (...) Despite divergent approaches and the wide-ranging research focus of the various authors, Hemelrijk’s work proves to be a solid anchor to bring them together. It is to be expected that many readers will zoom in on only one of the contributions in this volume. Let this review serve as a call against that, however, as reading a single contribution is certainly worthwhile, but diminishes the book’s greatest merit: Reading all the papers together offers a thought-provoking overview of the current state of the art and the road ahead for any study of women and gender in Antiquity."Miriam Groen-Vallinga in BMCR 2024.05.25