Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers (SUNY Series in Classical Studies)

One of the reasons for the study of the Greek and Roman classics is their perpetual relevance. In no area can this position be more clearly defended than in the investigation of the feminine condition, for it was here that basic attitudes derogatory to the sex were molded by legal and social systems, by philosophers and poets, and by the thinking of men long since gone. Women in the Ancient World brings together essays that examine philosophy, social history, literature, and art, and that extend from the early Greek period through the Roman Empire. Their wide range of critical perspectives throws new light on the personal, political, socio-economic, and cultural position of women. Frontmatter Abbreviations (page vii) Introduction (John Peradotto and J. P. Sullivan, page 1) Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitide Toward Women (Marylin B. Arthur, page 7) "Reverse Similes" and Sex Roles in the Odyssey (Helene P. Foley, page 59) Workers and Drones: Labor, Idleness and Gender Definition in Hesiod's Beehive (Linda S. Sussman, page 79) Sappho and Helen (Page duBois, page 95) The Maenad in Early Greek Art (Sheila McNally, page 107) Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour (K. J. Dover, page 143) The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia (Froma I. Zeitlin, page 159) The Menace of Dionysus: Sex Roles and Reversals in Euripides' Bacchae (Charles Segal, page 195) Plato: Misogynist, Phaedophile, and Feminist (Dorothea Wender, page 213) The Women of Etruria (Larissa Bonfante Warren, page 229) The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-Cultural Feminism (Judith P. Hallett, page 241) Rape and Rape Victims in the Metamorphoses (Leo C. Curran, page 263) Theodora and Antonina in the Historia Arcana: History and/or Fiction? (Elizabeth A. Fisher, page 287) Selected Bibliography on Women in Classical Antiquity (Sarah B. Pomeroy (with Ross S. Kraemer and Natalie Kampen), page 315) Suggested Undergraduate Syllabus (Sarah B. Pomeroy, page 373) John Peradotto And J.p. Sullivan, Editors. Selected Bibliography On Women In Classical Antiquity, [by] Sarah B. Pomeroy: P. 315-372. Includes Bibliographical References.