The Public Lives of Ancient Women 500 BCE - 650 CE

Covering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presence and activities of ancient women in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. "Building on the important work by Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres. Contributors are: Josine H. Blok, Lucinda Dirven, Anique Hamelink, Martijn Icks, Lien Foubert, Sanne Klaver, Onno M. van Nijf, Sofie Remijsen, Evelien J.J. Roels, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Emila Salerno, Daniëlle Slootjes, Rolf Strootman, Marlena Whiting"-- Provided by publisher ‎Contents ‎Figures ‎Introduction (Dirven, Icks and Remijsen) ‎Complete List of Publications by Emily A. Hemelrijk ‎Chapter 1. Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World (Strootman) ‎Chapter 2. Empresses Taking Charge (Icks) ‎Chapter 3. Zenobia versus Mawia (Dirven) ‎Chapter 4. Image and Reality (Slootjes) ‎Chapter 5. Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis (Blok and van Rookhuijzen) ‎Chapter 6. Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere (van Nijf) ‎Chapter 7. Women on Time (Remijsen) ‎Chapter 8. Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae (Salerno) ‎Chapter 9. Discourses of a Changing Society (Foubert) ‎Chapter 10. Present in Public Lettering (Roels) ‎Chapter 11. Publicly Luxurious (Hamelink) ‎Chapter 12. Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress (Klaver) ‎Chapter 13. Female Patronage in Late Antiquity (Whiting) ‎Index Building on the important work by Emily A. Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.