Women in Antiquity

Real Women Across the Ancient World
Herausgeber: Budin, Stephanie Lynn; Turfa, Jean Macintosh

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia.

Produktdetails

• Rewriting Antiquity
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 1074
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 184mm x 62mm
• Gewicht: 1994g
• ISBN-13: 9781138808362
• ISBN-10: 1138808369
• Artikelnr.: 48096826

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian with a focus on ancient Greece and the Near East. Her published works include Artemis (2015), Images of Women and Child from the Bronze Age (2011), The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (2008), and The Origin of Aphrodite (2003), as well as numerous articles on ancient religion and iconography. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and bunnies. Jean MacIntosh Turfa received her Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and Latin from Bryn Mawr College, USA. She was a consultant for the Kyle M. Phillips Etruscan Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where she is currently a Consulting Scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Part One: Mesopotamia
Introduction
1. Stephanie Lynn Budin-"Female Sexuality in Mesopotamia"
2. Erica Couto-Ferreira-"Being mothers or acting (like) mothers?
Constructing motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia"
3. Claudia Suter-"Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite
Women in 3rd-Millennium Mesopotamia"
4. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati-"Women's Power and Work in Ancient Urkesh"
5. Alhena Gadotti-"Mesopotamian Women's Cultic Roles in late 3rd - early
2nd millennia bce"
6. Josué J. Justel-"Women, Gender and Law at the Dawn of History: The
Evidence of the Cuneiform Sources"
7. Andrew McCarthy-"Businesswomen and their Seals in Early Mesopotamia"
8. Anna-Isabelle Langlois-"The Female Tavern-Keeper in Mesopotamia: Some
Aspects of Daily Life"
9. Saana Svärd-"Neo-Assyrian Elite Women"
10. Janet Monge and Page Selinsky-"Patterns of Violence Against Women in
the Iron Age Town of Hasanlu, Solduz Valley, Iran"
11. Maria Brosius-"No Reason to Hide - Women in the Neo-Elamite and
Persian Periods"
Part Two: Egypt
Introduction
1. Rosalie David-"Understanding The Lives Of Ancient Egyptian Women: The
Contribution Of Physical Anthropology"
2. Marc Orriols-Llonch-"Women's role in sexual intercourse in ancient
Egypt"
3. Erika Feucht-"Motherhood in Pharaonic Egypt"
4. Suzanne Onstine-"Women's participation in the religious hierarchy of
Ancient Egypt"
5. Jan Picton- "Living and Working in a New Kingdom 'harem town'"
6. Deborah Sweeney-"Women at Deir el-Medîna"
7. Katharina Zinn-"Women in Amarna: legendary royals, forgotten elite,
unknown populace?"
8. Joyce Tyldesley-"The Role of Egypt's Dynastic Queens"
9. Jacke Phillips-"Women in Ancient Nubia"
Part Three: Hittites
Introduction
1. Trevor Bryce-"The Role and Status of Women in Hittite Society"
2. Gary Beckman-"Birth and Motherhood among the Hittites"
3. Billie Jean Collins-"Women in Hittite Religion"
Part Four: Cyprus
Introduction
1. Kirsi O. Lorentz-"Real bones, real women, real lives: Bioarchaeology
of women in ancient Cyprus"
2. Stephanie Lynn Budin-"Maternity in Ancient Cyprus"
3. Jennifer M. Webb-"Women at home and in the community in prehistoric
Bronze Age Cyprus"
4. Louise Steel-"The social and economic roles played by the women of
Alashiya"
5. Nancy Serwint-"Women and the Art of Ancient Cyprus"
6. Joanna Smith-"Women in the Cities of Cyprus: Rulers and Urban
Dwellers from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period"
Part Five: The Levant and Carthage
Introduction
1. Patrick M. Michel-"Functions and personalities of "Syrian"
Priestesses in the Bronze Age: Priestesses at Mari, Emar, and Ugarit
"
2. Marguerite Yon-"Women's Daily Lives in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (2nd
millennium bce)"
3. Jennie Ebeling-"Women's Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan"
4. Kevin McGeough-"'Will Womankind Now Be Hunting?': The Work and
Economic Lives of Women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit"
5. Carol Meyers-"Women's Daily Life (Iron Age Israel)"
6. Assaf Yasur-Landau-"Women In Philistia: The Archaeological Record Of
The Iron Age"
7. Carol Meyers-"Women's Religious Life (Iron Age Israel)"
8. Peggy Day-""Until I Come and Take You Away to a Land Like Your Own:"
A Gendered Look at Siege Warfare and Mass Deportation"
9. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Meritxell Ferrer Martin-"Women's Ritual
Practice in the Western Phoenician and Punic World"
Part Six: The Aegean, Bronze Age and Historical
Introduction
1. John Prag-"From the Caves of the Wind to Mycenae Rich in Gold: the
faces of Minoan and Mycenaean women"
2. John Younger-"Minoan Women"
3. Stephanie Lynn Budin-"Maternity in the Bronze Age Aegean"
4. Cécile Boëlle-Weber-"I-je-re-ja, ka-ra-wi-po-ro and others... Women
in Mycenaean Religion"
5. Cynthia Shelmerdine-"Women in the Mycenaean Economy"
6. Brendan Burke-"Beyond Penelope: Women and the role of Textiles in
Early Greece"
7. Sherry Fox-"The Bioarchaeology of Women in Greek Antiquity"
8. James Whitley-"Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: A View
from the Grave"
9. Yurie Hong-"Mothering in Ancient Athens: Class, Identity, and
Experience"
10. Matthew P. J. Dillon-""Chrysis The Hiereia Having Placed A Lighted
Torch Near The Garlands Then Fell Asleep (Thucydides Iv.133.2)."
Priestesses Serving The Gods And Goddesses In Classical Greece"
11. Allison Glazebrook-"Prostitutes, Women, and Gender in Ancient Greece"
12. Edward E. Cohen-"The Athenian Businesswoman"
13. Gillian Ramsey-"Hellenistic Women and the Law: Agency, Identity and
Community"
Part Seven: Etruria and the Italian Archipelago
Introduction
1. Fulvia Lo Schiavo and Matteo Milletti-"The Nuragic women: Facts and
hypotheses on Bronze Age Sardinian women"
2. Judith Swaddling-"Seianti: portrait of an Etruscan woman"
3. Larissa Bonfante- "Motherhood in Etruria"
4. Jean MacIntosh Turfa- "Health and medicine for Etruscan women"
5. Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis- "Etruscan marriage (
matrimonio etrusco)"
6. Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis- "The wife of the prince (la
donna del principe)"
7. Ingrid Edlund-Berry- "Etruscan goddesses & worshipers: the place of
women in the context of urban and non-urban sanctuaries"
8. Margarita Gleba- "Women and textile production in pre-Roman Italy"
9. Jacopo Tabolli and M. DeLucia Brolli- "Faliscan women"
10. Camilla Norman- "Daunian Women: Costume And Actions Commemorated In
Stone"
11. Enrico Benelli- "Etruria: female slaves and slave-owners"
Part Eight: Rome
1. Lena Larsson Lovén- "Roman motherhood"
2. Emily Hemelrijk-"Women's daily life in the Roman West"
3. Fanny Dolansky-"Strained relations, gender differences, and domestic
ideals: the significance of two Roman family festivals"
4. Hilary Wills Becker- "Roman women in the urban economy: occupations,
social connections, and gendered exclusions"
5. Linnea Åshede-"A demanding supply: prostitution in the Roman World"
6. Elizabeth Greene-"Identities And Social Roles Of Women In Military
Settlements In The Roman West"
7. Anna McCullough- "Female Gladiators in the Roman Empire"
Part Nine: At the Edges
Introduction
1. Adrienne Mayor-"Warrior Women: The archaeology of Amazons"
2. Lourdes Prados Torreira- "Women in Iberian Culture: 6th-1st centuries
b.c."
3. Miranda Aldhouse-Green-"Viragos and Virgins: Women in the Celtic
World"
4. Nancy Wicker- "Women In The Roman Iron Age (A.D. 0-400) In
Scandinavia"
Part Ten: Coda
1. Kathy L. Gaca- "Continuities in Rape and Tyranny in Martial Societies
from Antiquity Onwards"