Women of Ancient Greece / / Pierre Brulé.

Pierre Brulé's brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, including their religious, familial and domestic duties, their economic importance, and their social, moral and legal status as wives, cohabitees or slaves. He examines their sexual ro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2003
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Publisher's Acknowledgement
  • Prologue: Which paths will lead us to them?
  • 1 The feminine and the sacred
  • 2 Women of the epics
  • 3 On the body and sexuality
  • 4 Joys and miseries of married life
  • 5 The woman in the 'house'
  • 6 The women on the outside
  • Epilogue: How shall we take our leave of them?
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Classical Authors
  • General Index