James Sharon L. Dillon Sheila - A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers.

ANCIENT HISTORY

Published

A Companion to the Roman Army

Edited by Paul Erdkamp

A Companion to the Roman Republic

Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx

A Companion to the Roman Empire

Edited by David S. Potter

A Companion to the Classical Greek World

Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl

A Companion to the Ancient Near East

Edited by Daniel C. Snell

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

Edited by Andrew Erskine

A Companion to Late Antiquity

Edited by Philip Rousseau

A Companion to Ancient History

Edited by Andrew Erskine

A Companion to Archaic Greece

Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees

A Companion to Julius Caesar

Edited by Miriam Griffin

A Companion to Byzantium

Edited by Liz James

A Companion to Ancient Egypt

Edited by Alan B. Lloyd

A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

Edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington

A Companion to the Punic Wars

Edited by Dexter Hoyos

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon

LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Published

A Companion to Classical Receptions

Edited by Lorna Hardwick and Christopher Stray

A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography

Edited by John Marincola

A Companion to Catullus

Edited by Marilyn B. Skinner

A Companion to Roman Religion

Edited by Jrg Rpke

A Companion to Greek Religion

Edited by Daniel Ogden

A Companion to the Classical Tradition

Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric

Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

Edited by Ian Worthington

A Companion to Ancient Epic

Edited by John Miles Foley

A Companion to Greek Tragedy

Edited by Justina Gregory

A Companion to Latin Literature

Edited by Stephen Harrison

A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought

Edited by Ryan K. Balot

A Companion to Ovid

Edited by Peter E. Knox

A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language

Edited by Egbert Bakker

A Companion to Hellenistic Literature

Edited by Martine Cuypers and James J. Clauss

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

Edited by Joseph Farrell and Michael C. J. Putnam

A Companion to Horace

Edited by Gregson Davis

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman

Worlds

Edited by Beryl Rawson

A Companion to Greek Mythology

Edited by Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone

A Companion to the Latin Language

Edited by James Clackson

A Companion to Tacitus

Edited by Victoria Emma Pagn

This edition first published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

A companion to women in the ancient world / edited by Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon.

p. cm. (Blackwell companions to the ancient world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4051-9284-2 (hardback: alk. paper) 1. WomenHistoryTo 500. 2. Civilization,

Ancient. I. James, Sharon L. II. Dillon, Sheila.

HQ1127.C637 2012

305.4093dc23

2011029133

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs 9781444354805; Wiley Online Library 9781444355024; ePub 9781444355000; Mobi 9781444355017

List of Illustrations

Maps

Place names mentioned in Part I: Women Outside Athens and Rome

Place names mentioned in Part II: The Archaic and Classical Periods

Place names mentioned in Part III: Women in a Cosmopolitan World:
The Hellenistic and Late Republican Periods

Place names mentioned in Part IV: The Beginnings of Empire and Part V:
From Empire to Christianity

Figures

2.2 Menna supervises agricultural work. Mural painting from the vestibule of the Tomb of Menna in Thebes, Egypt. Photo: DeA Picture Library/Art Resource, NY.

2.3 Wooden female figure, probably Middle Kingdom. Photo: Courtesy of Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Wales.

2.4 Elevated platform in a house in New Kingdom Deir el-Medina. Photo: Courtesy of Kenneth Griffin.

2.5 After Auguste Mariette (18691880). Abydos: Description des fouilles excutes sur l'emplacement de cette ville. Ouvrage publi sous les auspices S.A. Ismail-Pacha (Paris) v. 2, pl. 60.

3.1 Dancer fresco from the Queen's Megaron, Knossos palace. Late Minoan IIMycenean, fifteenth century BCE. Crete, Herakleion Archaeological Museum. Photo: Nimatallah/Art Resource, NY.

3.2 Lady of Phylakopi, terracotta figurine from Melos. Mycenean, fourteenth century BCE. Melos, Archaeological Museum of Plaka. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY.

3.3 Anthropomorphic terracotta vase (Goddess rhyton) from Mochlos. Early Minoan III, late third millennium BCE. Crete, Herakleion Archaeological Museum. Photo: Nimatallah/Art Resource, NY.

3.4 Ivory female triad from Mycenae. Minoan craftsmanship; Late Minoan I, sixteenth century BCE. Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Photo: Vanni/Art Resource, NY.