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Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook Annotated Edition
Author(s): Bonnie Maclachlan (Author)
- Publisher: Continuum
- Publication Date: 31 May 2012
- Edition: Annotated
- Language: English
- Print length: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441179631
- ISBN-13: 9781441179630
Book Description
The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology and women’s studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works. Texts come from literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, as well as papyri and inscriptions, and each text will be placed into the cultural mosaic to which it belongs. Ranging geographically from the Greek mainland and the communities along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, to Egypt and the Greek West (modern day southern Italy and Sicily), the volume follows a clear chronological structure. Beginning in the eighth century Bce the coverage continues through Archaic and Classical Athens concluding with the Hellenistic era.
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About the Author
Bonnie MacLachlan is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario, USA. Her published volumes include The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry (1993), Virginity Revisited: The Autonomy of the Unpossessed Body, co-edited with Judith Fletcher (2007), Women in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook (Bloomsbury 2012) and Women in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook (Bloomsbury 2013).
