Women in Ancient Greece

Name: Women in Ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9780674954731

ISBN-10: 0674954734

ISBN-13: 9780674954731

Edition: 1995

Authors: Sue Blundell

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To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society. Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position--and how they were regarded by men. Here are women as portrayed in Homer, in Greek lyric poetry, and by the playwrights; the female nature…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/5/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Women in Myth


Myth: an introduction


Creation myth


The Olympian goddesses: virgins and mothers


Women in the poems of Home


Amazons


The Archaic Age, 750-500 BC


Women in an age of transition


Women and the poets


Women as poets: Sappho


Women in stone


The Classical Age, 500-336 BC


Women's bodies


Women in Athenian law and society


The lives of women in Classical Athens


Sparta and Gortyn


Women and religion


Ideas About Women in the Classical Age


Women in drama


Women and the philosophers


Women in Classical sculpture


POSTSCRIPT


The Hellenistic Age


Notes


Bibliography


Quotation acknowledgements


Illustration acknowledgements


Index


ILLUSTRATIONS Plates 1-26 Plates 27-45