Classical Studies, Sources : Fields of Study

Rev. ed. of the Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women.

Women's Classical Committee, U. of London.

Blackwell Companions.

Bloomsbury, 2023.

Contains journal articles and essays about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Chapter 1. Sapphic Performances -- The implications of reading Sappho -- "Old things are becoming new" -- "Charming tableau" -- "Going back with knowledge" -- "If I can ever sing to you" -- "My orchard in Mytellini" -- Chapter 2. Weaving -- "One handwoven dress" -- "Beautiful, statuesque girl, heroine of two social continents" -- The "anadromic method" and experimental replication -- "My happiness hangs on a thread" -- "The key to the matter is the loom!" -- Chapter 3. Patron of Byzantine music -- The "musical question" and the Oresteiaka -- Penelope Sikelianos Duncan -- After Penelope -- Konstantinos Psachos and the field of Greek music -- Eva Sikelianos in the field of Greek music -- Patron of Greek music -- Lessons from India's decolonization movement -- Chapter 4. Drama -- Isadora Duncan's "multiple oneness," 1903 -- Atalanta in Bar Harbor, 1905 -- Delphic visions on Mount Parnassus, early 1920s -- Prometheus Bound in Delphi, 1927 -- The Persians at Jacob's Pillow, 1939 -- Chapter 5. Writing -- Upward Panic -- The loom is the key (again) -- "Politics" -- Translating Angelos Sikelianos's Act of Resistance -- Angelos's Akritika thrusts Eva into politics -- "Greek home-coming year" -- Epilogue: recollecting a life.
This is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renée Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn. 0Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death. 0Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as "the only ancient Greek I ever knew."

OUP, 2021.
"Through a set of original essays, this volume showcases new directions in the well-established field of the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves (1975) introduced scholars, students, and general readers to a new area of inquiry. Building upon and moving beyond that seminal work, the contributions to this volume together represent a next step in this interdisciplinary field. Contributors, all of whom have been influenced directly or indirectly by Pomeroy's Goddesses and other work, include scholars with training in the study of history, literature, law, art, medicine, epigraphy, papyrology, and archaeology. Covering a wide range of time periods and utilizing a variety of approaches, the essays will help readers to see women in antiquity with new eyes and to view anew issues related to women today"-- Provided by publisher.

Ann R. Raia & Judith L. Sebesta, eds.
The Women's Classical Caucus

Bloomsbury, 2020.
Introduction / Filippo Carlà-Uhink & Anja Wieber -- Semiramide in India. The Reception of an Ancient Oriental Warrior Queen in Baroque Opera / Kerstin Droß-Krüpe -- Carian Queens from the Orient to Greece and Back: The Reception of Artemisia I and Artemisia II / Irene Berti -- The Persian Boy, the Bactrian Girl and the Man from Macedon - Gender and Orientalisms in Mary Renault's Alexander the Great-Trilogy / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Drypetis in Fact and (Fan) Fiction / Sabine Müller -- Exotic, Erotic, Heroic? Women of Carthage in Western Imagination / Marta Garia Morcillo -- In the Name of Cleopatra: Emma Hamilton and Catherine Stepney Make Their Mark / Mary Hamer -- Colon(ial)izing Fulvia: (Re)Presenting the Military Woman in History, Fiction, and Art / Peter Keegan -- The Oriental Empresses of Rome. Severan Women in Literature and the Performative Arts / Martijn Icks -- The Palmyrene Queen Zenobia in Syrian TV - Inverting Orientalism for Modern Nationhood? / Anja Wieber -- The Dark Gaze of Galla Placidia / Christopher Bishop -- Theodora A.P. (After Procopius) / Theodora A.S. (After Sardou): Metamorphoses of an Empress / Filippo Carlà-Uhink -- From Historical Enigma to Modern Role Model: The Reception of Sāsānid Queen Šīrīn in Contemporary Iranian Cinema / Irene Madreiter -- Instead of a Conclusion: Gynaecocracy in the Orient, Oriental Seclusion in the Occident / Beate Wagner-Hasel
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Loeb ed.

Loeb ed.

Loeb ed.

Zaphon, 2021.
Powerful women in the ancient world in the light of the sources -- Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: mutual empowerment and the myth Innana conquers Ur / Annette Zgoll -- The many lives of Enheduana : identity, authorship, and the "world's first poet" / Gina Konstantopoulos -- Šamḫat : deconstructing temple prostitution one woman at a time / Nicole Brisch -- Hatshepsut : the feminine Horus and daughter of Amun on the throne of Atum / David A. Warburton -- Bathsheba and beyond : harem politics in the ancient near east / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- The agency of female prophets in the Bible : independent or instrumental? prophetic or political? / Martti Nissinen -- Women at the heart of the tribal system in the book of Genesis / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- Between a queen and an ordinary woman : on Laodice and the representation of women in cuneiform sources in the Hellenistic period / Paola Corò -- Antigone : political power and resonance / Claudia Horst-- Mighty, but quiet? Elpinice between conflicting priorities in interpretations and sources / Florian Krüpe -- On a dynastic mission : Olympias and Kleopatra, agents of their house / Sabine Müller -- (Re)taking Halikarnassos : Ada, Alexander the Great and Karian queenship / Timothy Howe -- A Meroitic ruling queen of the late 1st cent. BC-early 1st cent. AD / Josefine Kuckertz -- Cornelia : a powerful woman / Kordula Schnegg -- Domum servavit, lanam fecit : Livia and the rewriting of the female model in the Augustan age / Francesca Rohr Vio -- Iulia maior on the move : exemplum licentiae and euergetis / Christiane Kunst -- Der Tod Messalinas : Folge sexueller Libertinage oder Machtkalkül? / Helmuth Schneider -- Feminine, influential and different? : the presentation of Julia domna / Brigitte Truschnegg -- Zenobia of Palmyra : a female Roman ruler in times of crisis / Udo Hartmann -- "Earthly yoke"? : the estate of Valeria Melania / Ireneusz Milewski -- Shirin in context : female agency and the wives of the Sasanian king Khosrow Parviz / Ewan Short, Eve MacDonald -- Powerful women in the ancient world in modern thought -- Cleopatra as a strong woman in modern times : a less negative episode in a disfigured tradition? / François De Callataÿ -- Rome herself : female characters in Günther Birkenfeld's Augustus novels (1934-1984) / Martin Lidner -- Depicting the Palmyrene queen Zenobia : from baroque "femmes fortes" to modern comic books / Anja Wieber.

OUP, 2020.
"Greek sources, postdating Pythagoras by hundreds of years, suggest that women played an important part in his school. Pseudonymous texts attributed to Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, and other female Pythagoreans, have also come down to us. Such testimonies are usually discussed as evidence for life in Pythagorean communities. Pythagorean Women Philosophers maps an entire web of textual tradition to offer something more complex: a rewriting of Greek philosophical history so as to include female intellectuals.0Bringing together little-known testimonies to women's contributions to Pythagorean thought, this book shows what modern readers may learn from them. Such testimonies first surface in fragments of Peripatetic writers, and continued to shape the reception of Pythagoreanism until the seventh century CE. They include sayings, philosophical treatises, and letters attributed to Pythagorean women, and form a vital undercurrent of the Pythagorean tradition. Against the tendency to discuss these0testimonies in terms of their validity as historical accounts of the life in Pythagorean communities, Dutsch contends that their value lies not in what they may represent but in what they are-accounts of Greek philosophical history that emphatically include women. Consequently, the book shifts attention from texts as historical testimonies to texts as literary artefacts engaged in creating a vision of the past, producing meaning in dialogue with other texts, especially the dialogues of Plato. Pythagorean women emerge from this overview not as individuals but as potent cultural icons that exist in the Greek culture's evolving imaginarium, challenging us to rethink our own accounts of Greek philosophical history."-- Provided by publisher,

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
"This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title, role in succession, the situation of mothers, wives and daughters of kings, regnant and co-regnant women, role in cult and in dynastic image, while also examining a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity"-- Provided by publisher.

Highlighting the contributions of women in the ‘digging’ sciences: archaeology, geology, and palaeontology.

Peeters, 2021.
Introduction : Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry / Jacqueline Klooster -- That I be your plaything : The cult of Arsinoe-Aphrodite in Image and text / Benjamin Acosta-Hughes -- Lycophron's Cassandra, a Powerful Female Voice / Giulia Biffis -- Seeing Statues : Authority, Erotic Power, and the Gendered Gaze in Theocritusʼ Idyll 3 / Matthew Chaldekas -- Dorians are allowed to speak Doric : Theocritusʼ Idyll 15 in the context of Panhellenization / Sophia Decker -- Courting the Queen : The Power Dynamics of Marriage as Metaphor in Callimachusʼ Victoria Berenices / Brett Evans -- Hypsipyle from Euripides to Apollonius Rhodius : New Perspectives Regarding Female Power in Hellenistic Poetry / Irene Giaquinta -- What angers Demeter also angers Dionysus : Demeter and Dionysus as Ptolemaic Queen and King in Callimachusʼ Hymn to Demeter / Kathleen Kidder -- Sappho as Anchor for Male and Female Greek Poets in the Hellenistic Period / André Lardinois -- Female Gaze in Dedications : The Case of Nossis / Flavia Licciardello -- Sit back and watch : Female Power in Callimachusʼ Hymn to Demeter / Fabiana Lopes Da Silveira -- Huntress and Midwife : Two Aspects of Artemis in Hellenistic Poetry / Davide Massimo -- Power Divine : Apolloniusʼ Medea and the Goddesses of the Homeric Hymns / Brian D. Mc Phee -- Poetically Erect again : Herodas and Female Oriented Sex-Humor in Mimiambus 6 / Jackie Murray -- The Coma Stratonices : Royal Hair Encomia and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry? / Thomas J. Nelson -- Revising Gender and Power in Callimachus Hymn 5 / Simone Oppen -- Moschusʼ Europa as Epic Poetry Gendered Female / Valeria Pace -- Youth, Beauty, and Erotic Power : Women and Boys in Greek Epigram / Michael Tueller -- Index rerum et nominum -- Index locorum
Subjects.

Brill, 2021.
"In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classical narratology and Julia Kristeva's subjectivity theory, Pyy scrutinises how gendered marginality is constructed in the genre and how it contributes to the fashioning of Roman imperial identity. Focusing on the ambiguous elements of epic, the study looks beyond the binary oppositions between the Self and the Other, male and female, and Roman and barbarian"-- Provided by publisher.

Agnete W. Lassen & Klaus Wagensonner, eds.
Yale Babylonian Collection, 2020.

Women in Myth -- Myth: an introduction; Creation myth; The Olympian goddesses: virgins and mothers; Women in the poems of Homer; 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 in Athenian law and society; women's bodies; 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.

Bloomsbury sources in ancient history.

Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
List of figures -- List of charts -- List of boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Timeline of the Classical world -- Maps. Introduction. 1 APproaches to women and gender in Classical antiquity : Ancient Greek and Roman sources -- Gender in context: social identity in the Ancient world -- Critical approaches -- Structuralism -- Psychoanalytic criticism -- Feminist criticism -- Cultural criticism -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- References -- Further reading. Greece. 2 Introduction to ancient Greece : Greece in the Bronze Age: Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations -- Iron Age -- The rise of the pois in the Archaic Period -- Athens and the Classical Period -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Reference -- Further reading. 3 The Greek family and household : Oikos: family and household -- Greek domestic space -- Textile production: women's work -- Growing up female in the Greek family -- The ritual activities of girls -- The family in ancient Sparta -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Reference -- Further reading. 4 Female adolescence in Greece : Medical views of female adolescence -- Aidos: protecting purity -- Nausicaa: a teenage girl in a heroic world -- Choruses of young girls -- Brides of death -- The Greek wedding -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 5 Greek marriage and motherhood : Pandora: the ambiguity of wives -- Aphrodite: the power of female sexuality -- Virtuous wives: Penelope and Alcestis -- How to train a wife -- The legal status of Athenian women -- Pregnancy and childbirth -- Mothers and children -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 6 Adultery and prostitution in Greece : Eros unbound -- Helen: archetype of adultery -- Adultery and Athenian law -- Desperate housewives -- Courtesans and prostitutes -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 7 Women, religion, and authority in Greece : Older women -- Women as ritual agents -- Priestesses -- Women-only religious festivals -- Women and funerary ritual -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. Interlude: women in the Hellenistic world. 8 Women in the Hellenistic world : The rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great -- Olympias: mother of Alexander -- The spread of Hellenism -- Women and Hellenistic literature -- Aphrodite and the female nude -- Traces of women in Hellenistic Egypt -- Ptolemaic queens: Arsinoe II -- Ptolemaic queens: Berenice II -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Reference -- Further reading. Rome. 9 An introduction to ancient Rome : Roman foundation myth -- The early republic -- Expansion of Roman rule -- Roman spectacles -- The collapse of the republic -- Julius Caesar -- The transition to empire -- Augustus and imperial Rome -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 10 The Roman family and household : Familia and domus -- The family of Augustus -- Roman domestic space -- Lanificium: women's work -- Growing up female in the Roman family -- Girls and Roman religion -- Educating girls -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Reference -- Further reading. 11 Female adolescence in Rome : Pudicitia: protecting purity -- Medical views of female adolescence -- Age at first marriage -- Adolescent girls in Roman religion -- Virgo docta -- The Roman wedding -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 12 Roman marriage and motherhood : Marriage and property -- Divorce, Roman style -- Cultus: the art of self-fashioning -- Managing the household -- Roman views of contraception and abortion -- Childbirth and nursing -- Mothers and children -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 13 Adultery and female prostitution in Rome : Clodia Metelli: a woman of pleasure -- Women in Latin love elegy -- The Augustan law against adultery -- Concubines -- Female prostitution -- Conclusion -- Questions for review -- Further reading. 14 Women and public life in Rome : Benefactors and businesswomen -- Female political protests -- Women and Roman religion -- Priestess -- Matronal cults -- Women and foreign cults.

Real women: an introduction -- Female stereotypes -- Mothers and mourners -- Working women -- The body beautiful -- Women and religion -- Royal women.

Vol. 1 Women in myth. Early Greece : the origins of the western attitude toward women / Marylin B. Arthur -- Putting her in her place : woman, dirt, and desire / Anne Carson -- Legendary women and Greek womanhood : the Heroines pyxis in the British Museum / Anthony F. Mangieri -- Beautiful evil : Pandora and the Athena Parthenos / Jeffrey M. Hurwit -- Imag(in)ing the other : Amazons and ethnicity in fifth-century Athens / Andrew Stewart -- Myth and genre on Athenian vases / Gloria Ferrari -- The captive's dilemma : sexual acquiescence in Euripides Hecuba and Troades / Ruth Scodel -- Discourses of sexual violation in mythic accounts and dramatic versions of "The Girl's Tragedy" / Adele Scafuro -- The dynamics of misogyny : myth and mythmaking in the Oresteia / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Women of early Rome as exempla in Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, book 1 / Tom Stevenson -- Ritual work on human flesh : Livy's Lucretia and the rape of the body politic / Patricia Klindienst Joplin -- The erotics of rape : Livy, Ovid and the Sabine women / Mary Beard.
Vol. 2 Women in religion. A feminist boomerang : the Great Goddess of Greek prehistory / Lauren E. Talalay -- Youth and age in the Thera Frescoes / Ellen N. Davis -- Women, dogs and flies / Susan Guettel Cole -- Anthropology and spirit possession : a reconsideration of the Phythia's role of Delphi / L. Maurizio -- The sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia : can architecture and iconography help to locate the settings of the rituals? / Inge Nielsen -- Women looking at women : women's ritual and temple sculpture / Eva Stehle and Amy Day -- Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle -- Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland -- Social status and religious participation / Celia Schultz -- The religious roles of roman women / John Scheid.
Vol. 3 Women in public life. The traffic in women : from Homer to Hipponax, from war to commerce / Madeleine M. Henry -- The "rich Athenian Lady" was pregnant : the anthropology of a geometric tomb reconsidered / Maria A. Liston and John K. Papadopoulos -- Ancient Greek women and art : the material evidence / Burnilde Sismondo Ridgway -- Towards a female topography of the ancient Greek city : case studies from late archaic and early classical Athens (c. 520-400 BCE) / Lisa C. Nevett -- Martial rape, pulsating fear, and the sexual maltreatment of girls, virgins, and women in antiquity / Kathy L. Gaca -- The conception of women in Athenian drama / Helene P. Foley -- Working women : female professionals on classical attic gravestones / Angeliki Kosmopoulou -- In death not divided : gender, family, and state on classical Athenian grave stelae / Ruth E. Leader -- What was free about a free Athenian woman? / David M. Schaps -- Women and the theater audience / David Kawalko Roselli -- Controlling women's dress : Gynaikonomoi / Daniel Ogden -- Hellenistic artists : female / Natalie Kampen -- Etruscan couples and their aristocratic society / Larissa Bonfante -- Representations of female sexualities / Suzanne Dixon -- Women's costume and feminine civic morality in Augustan Rome / Judith Lynn Sebesta -- Livia and the history of public honorific statues for women in Rome / Marleen B. Flory -- Women and gender in the Forum Romanum / Mary T. Boatwright -- Women on the columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and the visual language of Roman victory / Sheila Dillon -- Hair and the artifice of Roman female adornment / Elizabeth Bartman.
Vol. 4 Women in private life. The most silent women of Greece and Rome : rural labour and women's life in the ancient world : parts I and II / Walter Scheidel -- Women and law / Barbara Levick -- Reading the bones : interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston -- The eyes have it : female desire on attic Greek vases / Margaret M. Toscano -- The politics of pleasure : female sexual appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus / Lesley Dean-Jones -- Could Greek women read and write? / Susan Guettel Cole -- The woman least mentioned : etiquette and women's names / David Schaps -- Many brides : "mistress and maid" on Athenian Lekythoi / Joan Reilly -- Women and housing in classical Greece : the archaeological evidence / Susan Walker -- Architecture and behavior : building gender into Greek houses / Carla M. Antonaccio -- Seclusion, separation and the status of women in classical Athens / David Cohen -- Separation or seclusion? Towards an archaeological approach to investigating women in the Greek household in the fifth to third centuries BC / Lisa Nevett -- House and veil in ancient Greece / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- The good daughter : mothers' tutelage in Erinna's Distaff and fourth-century epitaphs / Eva Stehle -- Women on Hellenistic grave stelai : reading images and texts / Christina A. Salowey -- Elite women and the lower classes / Sarah Pomeroy -- Roman women / Gillian Clark -- Material girl : feminist confrontations with Roman art / Natalie Boymel Kampen -- The cult of virtues and the funerary relief of Ulpia Epigone / Eve d'Ambra -- "Pagan" and "Christian" marriage : the state of the question / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Slave-rape and female silence in Ovid's love poetry / Sharon L. James -- Viewing Ariadne : from ekphrasis to wall painting in the Roman world / Jaś Elsner -- Insinuation of womanly influence : an aspect of the Christianization of the Roman aristocracy / Kate Cooper.

Women in Archaic Greece: Talk in Praise and Blame; Excursus: Spartan Women: Women in a Warrior Society; Women in Classical Athens: Heroines and Housewives; Excursus: Amazons: Women in Control; The Hellenistic Period: Women in a Cosmopolitan World; Excursus: Medicine: The "Proof" Of Anatomy / Lesley Dean-Jones; Republican Rome I: From Marriage by Capture to Partnership in War - The Proud Women of Early Rome; Excursus: Etruscan Women / Larissa Bonfante; Republican Rome II: Women in a Wealthy Society - Aristocratic and Working Women from the Second Century B.C.E.; Excursus: The "New Woman": Representation and Reality; Women, Family, and Sexuality in the Age of Augustus and the Julio-Claudians; Excursus: The Women of Pompeii; Women of the High and Later Empire: Conformity and Diversity.

Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Lysias, To Antigenes, On the Abortion -- Lysias, On the daughter of Antiphon -- Hypereides, Against Aristagora aprostasiou, (two speeches) -- Deinarchos, That the daughters of Aristophon are not heiresses -- or, Diamartyria that the daughter of Aristophon is not an heiress -- Pericles, In Defense of Aspasia, for Impiety -- [Demosthenes] 40, To Boiotos on his mother's dowry -- Hypereides, Against Demetria, apostasiou -- Lysias, Against Diogeiton: A mother's compelling speech -- Deinarchos, Synegoria to Hegelochos, for the Epikleros, or Against Hegelohos, Synegoria on behalf of the Epikleros -- Deinarchos, Against Hedyle, apostasiou -- Lysias, To Lais -- [Deinarchos], Dispute between the priestess of Demeter and the Hierophant -- Lycurgus, On the Priestess -- Deinarchos, For an Epikleros: For the Daughter of Iophon -- Euboulides, Against the sister of Lakedaimonios, for Impiety -- Hypereides, In Defense of Mika -- Apollodoros, Against Neaira -- Lysias, For Nikomache -- Menekles, Against Ninos the Priestess, for Impiety -- Lysias, On the daughter of Onomakles -- Isaios 3, On the Estate of Pyrrhos -- Lysias, Against Philonides for Rape -- Hypereides, In Defense of Phryne -- Lysias, On the daughter of Phrynichos -- Isaios, To Satyros, on behalf of the epikleros -- Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother -- Demosthenes, Against Theoris, for Impiety -- Hypereides, To Timandra -- Women's participation in the Athenian justice system -- Judicial procedures involving women -- Gender as a factor in the construction of the argument -- Women's Empowerment, Social Groups and the Justice System -- Appendix. The main laws affecting the lives of Athenian women -- The law on marriage -- The law on the epidikasia of citizen and metic epikleroi -- The law on the epidikasia of a poor epikleros -- The Periclean citizenship law -- The laws prohibiting mixed marriages between Athenians and non-Athenians -- The law on divorce -- The laws on adultery affecting women -- The laws on succession and inheritance directly affecting women -- The social network: the laws requiring of the archon to protect women, children and orphans from abuse of their person or property -- All priests and priestesses are equally responsible under the law.

Women's voices -- Female poets/Men's words in women's mouths -- I. Men's opinions -- Praise/Invective -- II. Philosophers on the role of women -- III. Legal status in the Greek world -- Crete/Athens/Amorgos/Sparta/Thera/Smyrna/Egypt -- IV. Legal status in the Roman world -- Early Rome/The Roman jurists/Roman Egypt -- V. Public life -- Women's bravery in legend and history/Political life/Women's organizations/Inscriptions Honoring Benefactresses and Philanthropist -- Victors -- VI. Private life -- Correct behavior/Education of females/Intellectual life/Women and women/Women and men/Babies/Parents and children/The home/Celebrations/Epitaphs -- VII. Occupations -- Apprenticeship/Self-employment and entrepreneurship/Prostitution/Women gladiators/The arts and entertainment/Skilled labor/Sales and services/Agriculture/Other records of women's employment -- VIII. Medicine and anatomy -- Philosophers observe nature/Writings of practicing physicians/Writings on medical matters by laymen/Case histories from epitaphs/Female medical practitioners -- IX. Rligion -- Dionysus, Bacchus/Hera/Demeter, Ceres/Athena/Artemis/Aphrodite/Asclepius/Serapis/Vesta/Bona Dea/Isis/Witchcraft/Priestesses/Christianity/Late Pagan 'Saints'.

Rev. ed. of: Maenads, martyrs, matrons, monastics, c1998.

Sappho, Cleobulina, Telesilla, Myrtis, Praxilla, Aspasia, Eurydice, Philaenis, Erinna, Hedyle, Anyte, Moero, Nossis, Nicobule, Theano, Perictione I & II, Myia, Aesara, Melissa, Phintys, Ptolemais, Boeo, Corinna, Melinno, Cornelia, Hortensia, Sulpicia, Philinna, Syra, Salpe, Elephantis, Lais, Olympias, Sotira, Timaris, Sulpicia II, Pamphila, Maria, Cleopatra, Cleopatra (Alchemist), Dionysia, Caecilia Trebulla, Julia Balbilla, Terentia, Demo, Fabulla, Maia, Samithra, Xanite, Perpetua, Theosebeia, Proba, Egeria, Eudocia, Eucheria.