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| List of plates | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| Women's Voices | |
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| Female poets | |
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| Sappho | |
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| To Aphrodite | |
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| When I look at you | |
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| Anactoria | |
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| Parting | |
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| Remembering the girl Atthis | |
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| The wedding of Hector and Andromache | |
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| Corinna | |
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| The contest of Cithaeron and Helicon | |
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| Reflections on a woman poet | |
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| Praxilla | |
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| Two fragments | |
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| Erinna | |
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| Childhood | |
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| Two epigrams for Baucis | |
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| Anyte | |
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| Miletus | |
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| Antibia | |
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| Thersis | |
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| Philaenis | |
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| Nossis | |
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| To Hera | |
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| To Aphrodite | |
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| To Artemis | |
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| Polyarchis | |
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| Thaumarete | |
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| Callo | |
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| Sulpicia | |
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| To Messala | |
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| To Cerinthus | |
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| Claudia Trophime | |
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| Two epigrams | |
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| Inscribed on the Colossus of Memnon | |
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| Caecilia Trebulla | |
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| Balbilla | |
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| Damo | |
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| Men's words in women's mouths | |
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| Medea's complaint | |
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| Andromache's ideal behaviour | |
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| How a wife ought to behave | |
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| Deianeira contrasts childhood with life after marriage | |
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| The lot of women: Procne | |
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| Pasiphae | |
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| In defence of women | |
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| A fragment of a comedy | |
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| Men's Opinions | |
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| Praise | |
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| Inscriptions | |
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| Archedice | |
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| Aspasia | |
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| Dionysia | |
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| Claudia | |
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| Eucharis | |
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| Amymone, housewife | |
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| An accomplished woman | |
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| Murdia | |
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| Pythion and Epicydilla | |
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| From the tomb of the Statilii | |
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| Epitaph for a little girl, Politta | |
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| Allia Potestas | |
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| Athenodora | |
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| Urbana, housewife | |
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| Macria Helike, a Christian | |
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| Literary sources | |
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| Cornelia's noble nature | |
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| Tiberius chooses to die in place of Cornelia | |
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| Womanly virtue | |
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| Invective | |
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| Pandora | |
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| How to pick a wife | |
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| The nature of women | |
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| The female mind | |
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| The best days in a woman's life | |
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| Greek tragedy | |
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| The uselessness of women | |
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| The unreasonableness of women | |
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| The worthlessness of women | |
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| Satire and irony | |
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| Woman as the equivalent of evil | |
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| Weighing bad women against good | |
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| The price of a wife | |
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| Wives and courtesans compared | |
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| An overbearing wife | |
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| The dangers of literacy | |
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| The disadvantage of a rich wife | |
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| Juvenal on women in general | |
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| Bereavement | |
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| Cicero on Clodia | |
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| Philosophers on the Role of Women | |
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| The female role | |
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| Educating women to make them more like men | |
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| Men and women should be treated alike | |
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| A Roman philosopher advocates women's education | |
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| Legal Status in the Greek World | |
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| Crete | |
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| Laws relating to women | |
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| Athens | |
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| Funeral law | |
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| The banker Pasion's will | |
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| Aristotle's will | |
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| Provisions for female children | |
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| Married heiresses | |
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| Widow of Diodotus | |
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| Property | |
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| Maintenance | |
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| Payment of a dowry | |
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| Proof of marriage | |
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| A mistress's scheme | |
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| A husband's defence | |
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| The case for the prosecution in a poisoning trial | |
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| The past activities of a courtesan | |
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| Amorgos | |
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| A mortgage | |
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| Security for a dowry | |
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| Transactions with a society | |
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| Leased property | |
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| Sparta | |
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| Opinions attributed to the sophist Gorgias | |
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| A saying attributed to the philosopher Antisthenes | |
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| The education of Spartan mothers | |
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| The advantages of Spartan education and marriage customs | |
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| Anecdotes | |
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| The behaviour of Etruscan women | |
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| Egypt | |
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| A marriage contract | |
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| Annulment of a marriage contract | |
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| Agreement to transfer a concubine | |
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| Problems over a dowry | |
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| A wife requests restitution of a dowry | |
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| A husband complains that his wife stole his property | |
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| Legal Status in the Roman World | |
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| Early Rome | |
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| The laws of the kings | |
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| The Twelve Tables (excerpts) | |
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| Husbands' punishment of wives | |
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| The first divorce for sterility | |
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| Punishment for adultery | |
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| The Roman jurists | |
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| On women's status within the family | |
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| On guardianship | |
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| Patria potestas and adoption | |
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| Patria potestas | |
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| Guardianship | |
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| Guardianship | |
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| Guardianship | |
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| Pregnancy, status, and paternity | |
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| Children of slaves | |
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| On the Julian marriage laws | |
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| Men must marry | |
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| Prizes for marriage and having children | |
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| Augustus' law | |
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| The consequences of adultery | |
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| Petitions to the emperor | |
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| Adultery | |
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| Concubinage | |
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| The right of life and death | |
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| Social status and marriage | |
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| Social status | |
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| On marriage | |
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| Consent as the basis of marriage | |
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| Consent as the basis of marriage | |
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| Marital subordination | |
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| Social status and citizenship of children | |
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| Marriage after adultery | |
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| Eligibility for marriage | |
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| Conditions for the dissolution of marriage | |
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| The dowry | |
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| On legal powers of women | |
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| How women could make use of their freedom to contract | |
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| The wife's property | |
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| Division of property between husband and wife | |
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| The husband's liability | |
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| On sexual mores | |
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| Adultery defined | |
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| Prostitution | |
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| Punishments | |
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| Marriage with a freedman | |
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| How a woman loses her social status | |
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| Rape | |
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| Roman Egypt | |
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| Marriage and inheritance | |
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| A final dowry payment | |
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| Dowry payment through a bank | |
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| Legitimacy | |
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| A mother's last will and testament | |
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| Calpurnia Heraclea, a woman landowner | |
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| A woman's petition to act without a kyrios | |
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| A prostitute and her mother | |
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| A husband's complaint about an assault on his wife | |
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| A woman greengrocer brings a charge | |
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| A violent quarrel | |
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| A wife's complaint against an abusive husband | |
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| Public Life | |
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| Women's bravery in legend and history | |
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| Legend | |
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| The courage of the poet Telesilla | |
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| Marpessa and the defence of Tegea | |
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| A memorial to Telesilla | |
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| Thargalia | |
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| Artemisia, the sea-captain | |
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| Cloelia the hostage | |
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| The rape of Lucretia | |
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| History | |
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| Women who risked their lives to save their husbands | |
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| A funeral eulogy | |
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| Pythias, a courageous slave-woman | |
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| On Arria | |
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| Arria's death | |
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| On Fannia | |
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| Political life | |
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| Women demonstrate and obtain repeal of the Oppian law | |
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| Sempronia, a revolutionary | |
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| A portrait of Cleopatra | |
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| Hortensia's speech | |
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| Caenis, concubine of the Emperor Vespasian | |
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| Women advocates | |
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| Electioneering | |
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| The family of Julia Domna | |
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| Women's organisations | |
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| A trade union? | |
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| A women's club | |
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| The curia of women | |
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| The women's collegium | |
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| A grant for funeral rites | |
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| The matrons | |
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| Raising money | |
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| A meeting of married women | |
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| A women's 'senate' | |
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| A plan to restore the 'senate' | |
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| Honorific inscriptions | |
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| The chaste Ase | |
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| Aufria, woman of letters | |
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| Lalla of Arneae (gymnasiarch) | |
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| A benefactress | |
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| Food for children | |
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| Eumachia | |
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| Junia Theodora | |
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| Flavia Publicia Nicomachis | |
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| Modia Quintia | |
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| Aurelia Leite | |
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| Scholasticia | |
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| Victors | |
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| A royal victor | |
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| Winner of a four-horse chariot race | |
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| Winner of a two-horse chariot race | |
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| From the Panathenaic victor lists | |
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| Women victors | |
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| Melosa | |
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| Private Life | |
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| Correct behaviour | |
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| Chastity | |
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| Greek and Roman customs compared | |
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| Imperial upbringing | |
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| Seating for gladiatorial shows | |
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| The household of P. Larcius Nicia | |
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| Education of females | |
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| The education of Eurydice | |
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| The need for educated parents | |
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| Heraidous, a girl who is learning to read | |
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| Intellectual life | |
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| Plato's female pupils | |
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| A female philosopher | |
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| Epigram on Hipparchia | |
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| A learned woman | |
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| Agrippina's memoirs | |
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| A philosopher | |
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| A Roman philosopher | |
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| Women's eloquence | |
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| Sulpicia | |
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| Sayings attributed to Aspasia by Socrates | |
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| Women and women | |
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| Biote | |
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| Praxidice and Dyseris | |
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| The dildo | |
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| Going to a festival | |
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| The go-between | |
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| Lesbians as a bad omen | |
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| A letter from a soldier's wife | |
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| Women and men | |
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| The rape of the Sabine women | |
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| 'Birth control' | |
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| The courtesan Aspasia, mistress of Pericles | |
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| Disadvantages of a liberal education | |
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| Melite | |
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| Betrayal | |
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| A butcher and his wife | |
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| Graffito on a tomb | |
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| Women unfavourably compared with boy lovers | |
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| Advice on marriage | |
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| To Calpurnia Hispulla | |
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| To his wife Calpurnia | |
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| To Calpurnia | |
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| To Calpurnia | |
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| To Calpurnius Fabatus | |
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| From a husband who misses his wife | |
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| Babies | |
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| Exposure of a female child | |
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| Hiring a wet-nurse | |
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| Graxia who nursed her own children | |
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| A letter from a parent offering to pay for a wet-nurse | |
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| The philosopher Favorinus on breast-feeding | |
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| Parents and children | |
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| Posilla Senenia | |
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| A mother's request | |
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| A mother's last wish | |
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| A mother's instructions about her son's education | |
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| The good old days | |
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| Cornelia's children | |
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| A letter from Cornelia to Gaius Gracchus | |
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| Seneca to his mother | |
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| The death of the Helvidiae | |
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| The death of Minicia Marcella | |
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| Epitaph of Minicia Marcella | |
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| Julia, daughter of Augustus | |
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| Julia's wit | |
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| The home | |
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| How to train a wife | |
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| Letter from a woman about domestic matters | |
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| Letter from a woman managing an estate | |
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| Celebrations | |
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| Attempts to explain Roman marriage customs | |
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| A wedding invitation | |
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| A birthday party | |
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| Epitaphs | |
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| Phrasicleia | |
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| Bitte | |
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| Xenoclea | |
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| From a husband | |
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| A widower | |
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| Epitaph with curse | |
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| A devoted couple | |
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| From the second husband | |
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| From a father | |
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| From a mother | |
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| Occupations | |
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| Apprenticeship | |
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| An apprenticeship agreement | |
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| Self-employment | |
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| An incentive to female enterprise | |
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| Valeria Maxima, owner of a farm | |
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| Prostitution | |
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| Nemeas the aulos player | |
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| Prostitutes | |
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| The trial of the hetaera Phryne of Thespiae | |
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| The palace brothel | |
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| The senate vs. Vistilia | |
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| Justinian on pimps | |
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| Vibia Calybenis, the procuress | |
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| Graffiti | |
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| A runaway slave | |
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| Women gladiators | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Lady gladiators | |
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| In the Colosseum | |
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| Domitian's entertainment for the masses | |
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| Lion slayers | |
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| Amazons in the Colosseum | |
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| Fans | |
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| Septimius Severus calls a halt | |
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| The arts and entertainment | |
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| An exceptional tumbler | |
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| A tumbler | |
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| Aglais the trumpet-player | |
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| A harpist | |
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| Women painters | |
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| An actress | |
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| A troupe of castanet-dancers | |
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| Menophila | |
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| A citharist | |
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| Phoebe Vocontia | |
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| Twin singers | |
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| A musical family | |
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| A singer | |
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| A lutenist | |
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| Skilled labour | |
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| Handiwork | |
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| Handiwork | |
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| A weaver of gold | |
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| A reader | |
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| A dressmaker | |
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| Sales and services | |
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| A washerwoman | |
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| A society of launderers | |
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| A grocer | |
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| The women's market | |
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| A bar-maid | |
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| Other records of women's employment | |
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| Papyri | |
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| Egypt, 3rd cent. BC | |
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| Egypt, Roman Imperial period | |
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| Inscriptions | |
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| Occupations of freedwomen | |
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| Occupations of freedwomen | |
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| Occupations of freedwomen | |
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| Occupations of women, from inscriptions on gravestones | |
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| A storeroom attendant | |
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| Women in the service of the imperial household | |
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| Occupations of slaves and freedwomen in Italy | |
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| Occupations in Roman Athens | |
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| Jobs named on lead curse tablets | |
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| Medicine and Anatomy | |
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| Philosophers observe nature | |
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| Origins of the desire for procreation | |
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| The female role in generation | |
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| Menstruation | |
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| Writings of practising physicians | |
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| The Hippocratic Corpus | |
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| Intercourse, conception and pregnancy | |
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| A contraceptive | |
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| Women's illnesses | |
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| Displacement of the womb | |
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| Hysterical suffocation | |
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| Dislocation of the womb | |
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| Dropsy in the womb | |
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| The dangerous periods during pregnancy | |
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| Hysteria in virgins | |
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| Case histories | |
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| Galen | |
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| Comparison of male and female anatomy | |
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| Psychological origins of hysteria | |
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| Aretaeus of Cappadocia | |
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| The wandering womb | |
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| Inflammation of the womb | |
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| Soranus | |
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| Menstruation, conception, contraception and abortion | |
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| Childbirth: instructions for the midwife | |
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| Treatment for hysterical suffocation | |
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| Writings on medical matters by laymen | |
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| The women of Miletus (a traditional story) | |
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| Pregnancy | |
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| Treatments for diseases of the womb | |
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| The dangers of sharing a bath with women | |
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| Side effects of menstruation | |
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| Case histories from inscriptions | |
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| Epitaph for a woman who died while pregnant | |
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| Malpractice | |
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| Death in childbirth | |
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| Death in childbirth | |
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| Taking the cure | |
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| Socratea | |
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| Female medical practitioners | |
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| Physicians | |
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| Antiochis | |
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| Primilla | |
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| Terentia Prima | |
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| Four doctors | |
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| Panthia | |
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| Domnina | |
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| Midwives | |
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| Qualities and training | |
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| A midwife and physician | |
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| Epitaphs of midwives | |
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| Epitaph of a midwife | |
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| Wet-nurses | |
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| A nurse | |
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| Advice on hiring a wet-nurse | |
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| Two contracts for wet-nurses for slave children | |
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| Receipt of wages for nursing | |
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| Religion | |
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| Dionysus/Bacchus | |
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| Imported Phrygian rituals | |
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| Rules of ritual | |
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| Epitaph for a priestess | |
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| Authorisation to establish a temple | |
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| Equipment for women's orgiastic rites | |
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| Senatus consultum de bacchanalibus | |
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| Rules in the cult of Dionysus | |
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| The festival of Agrionia | |
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| Hera | |
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| Chrysis, priestess of Hera | |
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| The cult of Hera | |
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| Demeter | |
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| The story of Persephone | |
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| Thesmophoria | |
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| Regulations for women attending the festival of Demeter | |
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| The order of the procession at the Mysteries | |
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| Athena | |
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| Inscribed monument dedicated by a woman | |
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| The priestess and temple of Athena Nike | |
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| The religious duties of aristocratic young girls | |
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| A procession | |
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| Artemis | |
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| A puberty ritual | |
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| Offerings to Artemis at Brauron | |
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| Dedications to Artemis Brauronia | |
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| Ritual procedures | |
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| Aphrodite | |
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| Dedication of statues of women | |
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| Asclepius | |
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| Cures of women's diseases | |
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| Serapis | |
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| A petition to Ptolemy and Cleopatra | |
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| Vesta | |
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| Vestal Virgins | |
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| Vestal Virgins | |
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| Augustus and the Vestal Virgins | |
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| Inscription to the chief Vestal | |
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| Bona Dea | |
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| A divine portent | |
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| Desecration of the rites of the Bona Dea | |
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| Witchcraft | |
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| Medea | |
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| A love potion | |
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| Bitto's curse | |
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| Ingredients for a love charm | |
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| Epitaph with a curse | |
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| A comprehensive curse | |
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| A curse against Aristo | |
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| A curse against Aristocydes | |
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| A remedy for induration of the breasts | |
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| A remedy for ascent of the womb | |
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| Women alchemists | |
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| Priestesses | |
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| Mamia | |
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| Priestesses at the sanctuary of Hilaeira and Phoebe | |
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| Priestesses of Eileithyia and Zeus Sosipolis at Olympia | |
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| Flavia Ammon | |
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| The priestess Lalla | |
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| Tullia, priestess of Hestia | |
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| The priestess Alexandria | |
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| Tata | |
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| Cassia Victoria | |
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| Theano the arrhephoros | |
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| Thesmophane | |
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| A priestess of Demeter at Eleusis | |
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| Berenice | |
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| Flavia Vibia Sabina | |
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| Paulina, priestess of several mystery cults | |
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| Umbria Matronica | |
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| Christianity | |
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| Teachings of Paul of Tarsus on women | |
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| Teachings about women attributed to Paul | |
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| The conversion of Lydia and the exorcism of a slave-girl | |
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| St Thecla's devotion to St Paul | |
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| The martyrdom of St Perpetua | |
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| Persecution under Diocletian | |
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| Gnostic ritual | |
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| Drinking parties | |
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| Celibacy | |
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| St Macrina and her mother Emmelia | |
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| Late pagan 'saints' | |
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| The martyrdom of the pagan philosopher Hypatia | |
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| Sosipatra the philosopher | |
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| Notes | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Appendix to the third edition | |
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| Geographical and chronological concordance | |
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| Concordance of sources | |
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| Index of women and goddesses | |
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| General index | |