Women's Influence on Classical Civilization

ISBN-13: 9780415309578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str.

Fiona McHardy

Opis

This volume explores how women in antiquity influenced cultural spheres usually thought of as male, such as politics, economics, science, law and the arts. It addresses particularly the question of how far culture, as it is traditionally defined, means male culture and the extent to which this culture was actually created and perpetuated by women. It is shown that women, through marriage and motherhood, tended both to perpetuate traditional male values and to make significant contributions of their own to this male culture. Each of the twelve essays in the collection focuses on a particular aspect of ancient culture and seeks to elucidate women's involvement in it.

Spis treści

Introduction  Women and Science: The Logistics of Gender in Classical Philosophy  Women and Medicine: Between Nature and Culture  Women in the Political Arena: 'Matriot' Games? Cornelia Mother of the Gracchi  Women and Commerce / Economy: Cultural Representations of Women in the Roman Economy  Women and Literature:  Feminists Theorise the Cultural  A Woman's Influence on a Roman Text
Women and Justice: Women's Influence on Revenge in Ancient Greece  Women and Architecture: Women and Architectural Patronage during the Roman Empire  Women and the Transmission of Foreign Culture: Libyan Women and the Transmission of Indigenous Culture  Galla Placidia: Women and Culture in Late Antiquity  Gender and Culture in Roman Egypt

O autorze

Eireann Marshall, Fiona Mchardy