Women in the Classical World: Image and Text by Elaine Fantham (PDF)

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Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman who died young; a great number of Roman wives were found guilty of poisoning their husbands, but was it accidental food poisoning, or disease, or something more sinister. Apart from the legends of Cleopatra, Dido and Lucretia, and images of graceful maidens dancing on urns, the evidence about the lives of women of the classical world–visual, archaeological, and written–has remained uncollected and uninterpreted.Now, the lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched Women in the Classical World lifts the curtain on the women of ancient Greece and Rome, exploring the lives of slaves and prostitutes, Athenian housewives, and Rome’s imperial family. The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials–poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and funerary art, women’s ornaments, historical epics, political speeches, even ancient coins–to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time. Written by leading experts in the fields of ancient history and art history, women’s studies, and Greek and Roman literature, the book’s chronological arrangement allows the changing roles of women to unfold over a thousand-year period, beginning in the eighth century B.C.E. Both the art and the literature highlight women’s creativity, sexuality and coming of age, marriage and childrearing, religious and public roles, and other themes. Fascinating chapters report on the wild behavior of Spartan and Etruscan women and the mythical Amazons; the changing views of the female body presented in male-authored gynecological treatises; the “new woman” represented by the love poetry of the late Republic and Augustan Age; and the traces of upper- and lower-class life in Pompeii, miraculously preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Provocative and surprising, Women in the Classical World is a masterly foray into the past, and a definitive statement on the lives of women in ancient Greece and Rome.

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⭐This is a must-have text for students of classical studies. The print is large enough to read – a blessing – and the content rounds out all the other information your teachers have stuffed into you. I loved the book and recommend it for any student in this field. AA++

⭐Good solid information! It was helpful in building my knowledge of how women were treated in the ancient world.

⭐This book is a wealth of information on women in the ancient world (mostly Greece and Rome). It is written in such a way that the reader should have no problem understanding any of the concepts. I was afraid that the writings would be bias, but that was not the case. I bought this book as a required textbook for a college class and was suprised to find it here cheaper than at the college bookstore. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the kind of lives that the women of antiquity lived.

⭐I received this very speedy and it was just what I wanted ND what I needed at Cheap price. While other people in my class paid like $50 I paid less than $10 I’m so happy

⭐It so good that I had a hard time keeping it in my office. My students are always wanting to borrow it.

⭐good book

⭐Easy to read and adjust to your your screen.

⭐There are no page numbers, which made it hard to follow my teachers instructions for the reading assignments because she provided page numbers.

⭐A work that is a little too heavy to be considered ‘general’ reading, despite being fascinating and of great value to an author (for example) in trying to appropriately characterise the roles and freedom (or lack thereof) of women in the Greek and Roman eras.

⭐I use this book for an online course on women in the ancient world.

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