Women in Ancient Societies : An Illusion of the Night

"This collection of essays represents research currently being undertaken on women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies. It provides a forum for the exchange and development of ideas and methods at a crucial period in the growth of women's studies in the UK." -- Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xx Gender Bias in Archaeology....Pages 1-23 Women in Ancient Egyptian Wisdom Literature....Pages 24-52 Notions of Community and the Exclusion of the Female in Jewish History and Historiography....Pages 53-69 The Problem of Women Philosophers in Ancient Greece....Pages 70-87 An Ancient Theory of Gender: Plato and the Pythagorean Table....Pages 88-101 Producing Woman: Hippocratic Gynaecology....Pages 102-114 Social Stereotypes and Historical Analysis: The Case of the Imperial Women at Rome....Pages 115-133 Woman in the Mirror: The Rhetoric of Adornment in the Roman World....Pages 134-151 Early Christianity and the Discourse of Female Desire....Pages 152-168 Reading Between the Lines: Sarah and the Sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis, Chapter 22)....Pages 169-180 Public and Private Forms of Religious Commitment among Byzantine Women....Pages 181-203 Women in Anglo-Saxon Poetry....Pages 204-232 Recycling Ancient Material: An Orthodox View of Hindu Women....Pages 233-251 The Witch and The Wife: A Comparative Study of Theocritus, Idyll 2, Simonides, Idyll 15 and Fatal Attraction....Pages 252-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-308 This book presents the results from recent research into women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, its 14 papers deriving from the first three years of an ongoing seminar series held at Oxford University. Contributors L Nixon (Gender bias in archaeology) ; A Depla (Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature) ; R Hawley (The problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece) ; H King (Hippocratic gynaecology) ; M Wyke (The rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world) ; A Cameron (Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire) ; J Herrin (Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women) ; F Gameson (Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry) ; J Leslie (An orthodox view of Hindu women) . This book presents the results from recent research into women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, its 14 papers deriving from the first three years of an ongoing seminar series held at Oxford University. Contributors include: L Nixon (Gender bias in archaeology); A Depla (Women in ancient Egyptian wisdom literature); R Hawley (The problem of women philosophers in ancient Greece); H King (Hippocratic gynaecology); M Wyke (The rhetoric of adornment in the Roman world); A Cameron (Early Christianity and the discourse of female desire); J Herrin (Public and private forms of religious commitment among Byzantine women); F Gameson (Women in Anglo-Saxon poetry); J Leslie (An orthodox view of Hindu women)