Envy, Poison, & Death: Women on Trial in Classical Athens

ISBN-13: 9780198822585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 448 str.

Esther Eidinow

Opis

This volume explores three trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE; the defendants were all women charged with undertaking ritual activities, but much of the evidence remains a mystery. The author reveals how these trials provide a vivid glimpse of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE.

Recenzje

Envy, Poison, and Death is a book of great learning and intellectual flair. The three women who are its subject have had a destiny that no one could have expected. Folklorists and anthropologists will see a classicist grappling with a question that they often have to ask themselves: how to understand the mind-set of culturally and/or historically remote persons.

O autorze

Esther Eidinow is Professor and Chair in Ancient History at the University of Bristol