Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-219) and index.
Contents:
Goddesses and mythical women -- Epic, tragic, and comedic women -- Misogyny and invective -- Women and the (re-) writing of history -- Women in the family -- Love and marriage, dowries and divorce -- Seclusion and exclusion: how much of an illusion? -- Women and world of work -- Spartan women -- Dressing down and making up -- Educated women: poets, philosophers, painters, physicists, and prostitutes -- Women in the visual arts -- Women in religion and in philsophy -- Death and the woman -- Woman as witch -- The 'incomplete' womean's medicine and female sexuality.
Summary:
"Women in Ancient Greece is a much-needed analysis of how women behaved in Greek society, how they were regarded, and the restrictions imposed on their actions. Given that ancient Greece was very much a man's world, most books on ancient Greek society tend to focus on men; this book redresses the imbalance by shining the spotlight on that neglected other half. Women had significant roles to play in Greek society and culture - this book illuminates those roles. Women in Ancient Greece asks the controversial question: how far is the assumption that women were secluded and excluded just an illusion? It answers it by exploring the treatment of women in Greek myth and epic; their treatment by playwrights, poets and philosophers; and the actions of liberated women in Minoan Crete, Sparta and the Hellenistic era when some elite women were politically prominent. It covers women in Athens, Sparta and in other city states; describes women writers, philosophers, artists and scientists; it explores love, marriage and adultery, the virtuous and the meretricious; and the roles women played in death and religion. Crucially, the book is people-based, drawing much of its evidence and many of its conclusions from lives lived by historical Greek women." -- publisher's website.
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