A companion to women in the ancient world

pt. I. Women outside Athens and Rome. Case study I: The Mother Goddess in prehistory: debates and perspectives / Lauren Talalay Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell Hidden voices: unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women: paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikolaïdou Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet pt. II. The Archaic and Classical periods. Case study II: Sex and the single girl: the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James Women, city, state: theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James Women and law / Barbara Levick Women and medicine / Holt Parker Reading the bones: interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston Approaches to reading attic vases / Kathryn Topper Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Jenifer Neils Interpreting women in Archaic and Classical Greek sculpture / A.A. Donohue Dress and adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd

pt. III. Women in a cosmopolitan world: the Hellenistic and late Republic periods.

Case study III: Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / Sheila Dillon

Case study IV: Domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James

Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Anne Bielman

Women on Hellenistic grave stelai: reading images and texts / Christina A. Salowey

Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Sheila Dillon

Women and family in Menander / Cheryl A. Cox

Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Monika Trümper

Oikos keeping: women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney

The women of Ptolemaic Egypt: the view from papyrology / Maryline Parca

Jewish women: texts and contexts / Laura S. Lieber

Women, education, and philosophy / Marguerite Deslauriers

Perceptions of women's power in the late republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / T. Corey Brennan

pt. IV. The beginnings of empire.

Case study V: Vergil's Dido / Sharon L. James

Women in Augustan Rome / Judith P. Hallett

Women in Augustan literature / Alison Keith

Women on the Bay of Naples / Eve D'Ambra

Early imperial female portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman

Portraits, prestige, piety: images of women in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs

pt. V. From empire to Christianity.

Case study VI: Female portraiture in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn

Women in imperial Roman literature / Rhiannon Ash

Female portraiture and female patronage in the High Imperial period / Rachel Meyers

Women in Roman Britain / Lindsay Allason-Jones

Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin West / Emily A. Hemelrijk

Rari exempli femina: female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Werner Riess

Women in late antique Egypt / Jennifer Sheridan Moss

Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou

Becoming Christian / Ross S. Kraemer

Appendix: Women in late antiquity (apart from Egypt): a bibliography.