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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Repost)

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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Repost)

Sharon L. James, "A Companion to Women in the Ancient World"
English | ISBN: 1405192844 | 2012 | PDF | 645 pages | 5.6 MB

Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title
Awarded a 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world.

The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world
Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more
Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation
Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity
Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity
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