Women in Antiquity: New Assessments

Richard Hawley is a Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway College, University of London. Barbara Levick is a Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.

• 1 From ‘daily life’ to ‘demography’ 2 Ideology and ‘the status of women’ in ancient Greece 3 Approaching women through myth: vital tool or self-delusion? 4 Signifying difference: the myth of Pandora 5 The cults of Demeter and Kore 6 Women’s ritual and men’s work in ancient Athens 7 Women’s identity and the family in the classical polis 8 Some Pythagorean female virtues 9 Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology 10 Women who suffer from a man’s disease: the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes 11 Re-reading (Vestal) virginity 12 Male power and legitimacy through women: the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians 13 Women and elections in Pompeii 14 A woman’s voice—Laronia’s role in Juvenal Satire 2 15 Aemilia Pudentilla: or the wealthy widow’s choice 16 Female sanctity in the Greek calendar: the Synaxarion of Constantinople

'... the strength of this book lies in two main areas: that it does raise some new issues and provoke thought and criticism, and that it is a good teaching tool.' – Classics Ireland'Through collections like these, the study of women in antiquity has achieved a high degree of academic respectability, and as a mark of that maturity a number of contributions look back self-critically on the genre itself, re-examining the assumptions inherent in the study of ancient women.' – Times Literary Supplement'This is a valuable collection of papers, for several areas of current research into the social history of the Greco-Roman world.' – The Classical Review'...these essays form a most useful and convenient collection' – Greece and Rome