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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary of Terms Maps Introduction

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PART I

Women Outside Athens and Rome

Case Study I: The Mother Goddess in Prehistory Lauren Talalay Women in Ancient Mesopotamia Amy R. Gansell Hidden Voices: Unveiling Women in Ancient Egypt Kasia Szpakowska Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean Women: Paths of Feminist Scholarship Towards the Aegean Bronze Age Marianna Nikoladou Women in Homer Cristiana Franco Etruscan Women: Towards a Reappraisal Vedia Izzet

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PART II

The Archaic and Classical Periods

Case Study II: Sex and the Single Girl: The Cologne Fragment of Archilochus Sharon L. James

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Contents Woman, City, State: Theories, Ideologies, and Concepts in the Archaic and Classical Periods Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James Women and Law Barbara Levick Women and Medicine Holt Parker Reading the Bones: Interpreting the Skeletal Evidence for Womens Lives in Ancient Greece Maria A. Liston Approaches to Reading Attic Vases Kathryn Topper Spartan Girls and the Athenian Gaze Jenifer Neils Interpreting Women in Archaic and Classical Greek Sculpture A. A. Donohue Dress and Adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece Mireille M. Lee Women and Religion in Greece Eva Stehle Women and Roman Religion Lora L. Holland Women in Magna Graecia Gillian Shepherd

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Women in a Cosmopolitan World: The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods

Case Study III: Hellenistic Tanagra Figurines Sheila Dillon Case Study IV: Domestic Female Slaves in Roman Comedy Sharon L. James Female Patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican Periods Anne Bielman Women on Hellenistic Grave Stelai: Reading Images and Texts Christina A. Salowey Female Portraiture in the Hellenistic Period Sheila Dillon Women and Family in Menander Cheryl A. Cox Gender and Space, Public and Private Monika Tru mper

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The Beginnings of Empire

Case Study V: Vergils Dido Sharon L. James Women in Augustan Rome Judith P. Hallett Women in Augustan Literature Alison Keith Women on the Bay of Naples Eve DAmbra Early Imperial Female Portraiture Elizabeth Bartman Portraits, Prestige, Piety: Images of Women in Roman Egypt Christina Riggs

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From Empire to Christianity

Case Study VI: Female Portraiture in Palmyra Maura K. Heyn Women in Imperial Roman Literature Rhiannon Ash Female Portraiture and Female Patronage in the High Imperial Period Rachel Meyers Women in Roman Britain Lindsay Allason-Jones Public Roles for Women in the Cities of the Latin West Emily A. Hemelrijk Rari exempli femina: Female Virtues on Roman Funerary Inscriptions Werner Riess

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Contents Women in Late Antique Egypt Jennifer Sheridan-Moss Representations of Women in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium Ioli Kalavrezou Becoming Christian Ross S. Kraemer 502

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Appendix: Women in Late Antiquity (Apart From Egypt): A Bibliography References Index of Women Museum Index Index

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