A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

RR 2012/366 A Companion to Women in the Ancient World Edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon Wiley-Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford 2012 xxx + 616 pp. ISBN 978 1 4051 9284 2 (print); ISBN 978 1 4443 5480 5 (e-PDF) £110 5199.95

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Keywords Ancient history, Women

Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211278476

Women in the ancient world have been a source of discussion and scholarship for many years but never before has that scholarship been brought together in one volume to create an interdisciplinary, methodologically based collection of work. A Companion the Women in the Ancient World docs this with the addition of textual, visual and archaeological evidence woven into the mix. As with all evidence from the ancient world there are a myriad of problems to address, biases to consider and interpretations to untangle after centuries of scholarship and interpretation. This companion presents essays and case studies attempting to do just this whilst widening the range of chronologies, geographies, genres and themes addressed in a single volume. It does all this in a mere 538 pages and five parts: Women Outside Athens and Rome; The Archaic and Classical Periods; Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods; The Beginnings of Europe; and From Empire to Christianity all of which are followed by an Appendix of Women in Late Antiquity (excepting Egypt), References, an Index of Women and a Subject Index.

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