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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 | |