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Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and c...more
Paperback, 464 pages
Published
August 23rd 2005
by The Johns Hopkins University Press
(first published 1990)
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This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumc...more
This excellent collection of primary source material from women was eye opening about life and social customs in Greece and Rome.
You wanna understand women in ancient Greece? Buy this book and Sue Blundell's Women in Ancient Greece.
Good resource. Has lots of treasures and gems with lots of dry stuff too.
Great primary sources regarding women in Classical Antiquity
May 31, 2008
Tara Calaby
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classics,
womens-history
Excellent sourcebook.
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