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WOMEN IN ANCIENT SOCIETIES

By: Archer, Lonie J. & Sarah Fischler & Maria Wyke (Eds. )

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: Routledge: 1994

Seller ID: 33503

ISBN: 0415908825

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

9.1 X 6.2 X 0.8 inches; 328 pages
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LE DONNE IN GRECIA

By: Arrigoni, Giampiera (A Cura Di)

Price: $42.00 USD

Publisher: Editori Laterza: 1985

Seller ID: 33510

ISBN: 8842026514

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Pages slightly tanned. Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has a couple of small tears and faint creasing and chipping. ; Storia E Societ; 447 pages
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HELEN OF TROY AND HER SHAMELESS PHANTOM

By: Austin, Norman

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 4591

ISBN: 0801429552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Contents: Part 1. The Traditional Helen: The Helen of the Iliad, Sappho's Helen & the Problem of the Text; Part 2. The Revised Helen: The Helen of the Odyssey; Stesichorus & his 'Palinode'; Herodotus & Helen in Egypt; Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision. Includes a glossary of greek terms. ; Myth and Poetics; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 223 pages
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AVIANUS: OEUVRES dites Et Traduites Par Lon Herrmann

By: Avianus; Lon Herrmann (Ed. )

Price: $52.00 USD

Publisher: Latomus: 1968

Seller ID: 10944

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; En franais and Latin; Collection Latomus Volume XCVI; 177 pages
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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY Volume 1, Number 2. May 1976

By: Badian, E. (Ed. )

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: 1976

Seller ID: 4661

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Contents: Frank J. Frost: Tribal Politics and the Civic State; Susan Treggiari: Jobs for Women; E. Badian: Rome, Athens and Mithridates. ; 63 pages
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PHILO'S USE OF THE CATEGORIES MALE AND FEMALE

By: Baer, Jr. , Richard A.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1970

Seller ID: 9276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Stamped "DUPL" to titlepage. Light foxing to top of textblock and part of spine. Small minor stain to back board. Appears to have been publisher's copy. ; Arbeiten Zur Literatur Und Geschichte Des Hellenistischen Judentums; 116 pages
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ROMAN WOMEN Their History and Habits

By: Balsdon, J. P. V. D.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Bodley Head: 1962

Seller ID: 31360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. Scholar's name in pencil to ffep (Philippa Goold ne Forder). DJ tattered with chipping, tears and some loss. ; 351 pages
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LIVIA First Lady of Imperial Rome

By: Barrett, Anthony A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 18196

ISBN: 0300091966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ has 1 small closed tear now in mylar. ; 1.23 x 9.46 x 6.36 Inches; 464 pages; Livia (58 B.C.-A.D. 29)-the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death.

LIVIA First Lady of Imperial Rome

By: Barrett, Anthony A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 18197

ISBN: 0300091966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book has minor bump to 1 corner. DJ now in mylar. ; 1.23 x 9.46 x 6.36 Inches; 464 pages; Livia (58 B.C.-A.D. 29)-the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius-wielded power at the center of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex individual. Achieving influence unprecedented for a woman, she won support and even affection from her contemporaries and was widely revered after her death.

Antho...
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AGRIPPINA Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire

By: Barrett, Anthony A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, CT, U.S.A., Yale University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 22454

ISBN: 0300065981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very faint shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has light shelfwear now in mylar ; 330pp, 19 illustrations. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography-the first on Agrippina in English-Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman...
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ANTIMACHUS OF COLOPHON AND THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN GREEK POETRY A Fragment Printed for the Use of Scholars

By: Benecke, E. F. M

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Bouma's Boekhuis: 1970

Seller ID: 2653

ISBN: 9060880285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Spine cover is split on one side and half of the other but still attached. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Rubbing to boards. Edgewear to corners. ; 256 pages; Antimachus of Colophon, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Ly...
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RELIGIOUS CULTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE AMAZONS

By: Bennett, Florence Mary

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher: 1987

Seller ID: 990

ISBN: 0892412046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Originally published in 1912. Contents: The Amazons in Greek Legend; The Great Mother; Ephesian Artemis; Artemis Astrateia and Apollo Amazonius; Ares; conclusion; Bibliography ; 84 pages
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GREECE AND GENDER

By: Berggreen, Brit & Nanno Marinatos (Eds. )

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Paul Astrms Frlag: 1995

Seller ID: 33505

ISBN: 8291626006

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

1 page is miscut by publisher and is corner creased. Scholar's name to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Else minor shelfwear. ; Greece and Gender is the title of two interdisciplinary workshops given at the then newly inaugurated Norwegian Institute for classics, archaeology and cultural history at Athens. The first workshop, held in February 1990, brought together people who are interested in the gender aspects of Greek past or present. The next workshop took place a year later, focussing more specifically on the transgressions and ambiguities of gender. Both workshops were initiated by Brit Berg...
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WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE

By: Blundell, Susan

Price: $9.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 33496

ISBN: 0674954734

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Crease through book - not lying flat. Else Minor shelfwear. ; To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society. Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and...
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WOMEN IN ANCIENT PERSIA (559-331 BC)

By: Brosius, Maria

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 18254

ISBN: 0198150091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light bump to 1 corner. Else book is fine. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 280 pages; Xerxes' exploits are famous, but what about Irdabama, a successful landowner who controlled her own wine and grain business? Or the ruthless queen Parysatis who murdered her enemy after a game of dice? By approaching the subject from a near eastern perspective, and thoroughly re-examining the Greek sources, This book is the first to reveal the fascinating picture of women and their economic and political importance in the Persian empire.
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IMAGES OF WOMAN AND CHILD FROM THE BRONZE AGE Reconsidering Fertility, Maternity, and Gender in the Ancient World

By: Budin, Stephanie Lynn

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2011

Seller ID: 32896

ISBN: 0521193044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear. ; 10.0 X 7.1 X 1.1 inches; 390 pages
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HER KIND Stories of Women from Greek Mythology

By: Cahill, Jane

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Broadview Press: 1995

Seller ID: 33487

ISBN: 1551110423

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light shelfwear else fine. ; Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten years she plotted the murder of her husband Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Conqueror of Troy. How would she have told her story? The Greek myths as we know them were told for men by men. Yet they were the culmination of a long oral tradition in which both men and women shared. Using extant ancient literary sources as her guide, including the works of Homer, Aeschylus, E...
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CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

By: Calame, Claude; (Trans. by) Janice Orion & Derek Collins

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 1996

Seller ID: 33502

ISBN: 082263063X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

A few faint scratches to rear wrap. ; In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an upda...
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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

By: Cameron, Averil and Amlie Kuhrt (Eds. )

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Wayne State University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 31359

ISBN: 0814317634

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Minor creasing to spine. ; 323 pages
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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

By: Cameron, Averil and Amlie Kuhrt (Eds. )

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: Wayne State University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 33495

ISBN: 0814317634

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Minor creasing to spine. 1 page is torn out but present. Else Good. ; 323 pages
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PANDORA'S DAUGHTERS The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity

By: Cantarella, Eva & Maureen B. Fant (translated by) & Mary R. Lefkowitz (Foreword by)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 29019

ISBN: 0801831938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. ; Ancient Society and History; 248 pages
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THE FEMALE PRINCIPLE IN PLUTARCH'S MORALIA

By: Chapman, Ann

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: University College Dublin Press: 2011

Seller ID: 15862

ISBN: 1906359644

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book is fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; Plutarch, whose works have remained immensely popular through the years, has shaped our ideas about much of the ancient world. His humane sensibilities, his skill in storytelling, and not least his humor have combined to charm readers throughout the centuries, persuading them that he is like them. In the twentieth century he was declared a feminist. In this study Chapman argues that his attitudes towards women were in fact those of his time, and that while he opted for persuasion instead of force in controlling women, his views are nonetheless chauv...
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WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

By: Clark, Gillian

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Published for the Classical Association at the Clarendon Press: 1989

Seller ID: 19916

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to front cover (Robert Brown). ; Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 21; 46 pages
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WOMEN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD With Addenda

By: Clark, Gillian

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Published for the Classical Association at the Clarendon Press: 1993

Seller ID: 33485

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelfwear. ; Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics No. 21; 52 pages
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THE DISTAFF SIDE Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey

By: Cohen, Beth

Price: $28.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 33976

ISBN: 019508683X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Jenifer Neil's copy with a large note to titlepage in red marker asking for 25 offprints of her contribution. Titlepage is misaligned (by publisher? ) with overhang to textblock. ; Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena) , seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa) , carnivorous monster (Skylla) , maid servant (Eurykleia) , and faithful wife (Penelope). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines these different femalerepresentations and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the vis...
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THE DISTAFF SIDE Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey

By: Cohen, Beth (Ed. )

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 33975

ISBN: 0195086821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Pencil marginalia and underlining to a few pages. Inner hinges are weakened and book is slanted. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena) , seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa) , carnivorous monster (Skylla) , maid servant (Eurykleia) , and faithful wife (Penelope). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines these different femalerepresentations and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualization of the Odyssey's female charact...
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PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

By: Connelly, Joan Breton

Price: $140.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 32974

ISBN: 0691127468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Some light creasing to DJ. ; In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic Oracle and the priestess of Athena Polias--to basket bearers and handmaidens. Along the way, she challenges long-held beliefs to show that priestesses played far more significant public roles in ancient Greece than previously acknowledged. Connelly builds this history thr...
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MARRIAGE AND PROPERTY

By: Craik, Elizabeth M. (Ed. ) & J. Steven Watson (Foreword)

Price: $26.00 USD

Publisher: Aberdeen University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 14553

ISBN: 0080284485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Rear board is water-stained and front board has light water-stain to edge. Last few pages have light rippling along lower section (water-staining). DJ has mild rippling and water-staining. ; E. M. Craik: Marriage in Ancient Greece; A. S. Gratwick: Free or Not So Free? Wives and Daughters in the Late Roman Republic; J. HARRIES: 'Treasure in heaven': Property and Inheritance Among Senators of Late Rome; Barbara E. Crawford: Marriage and the Status of Women in Norse Society; Ann J. Kettle: 'My Wife Shall Have It': marriage and Property in the Wills and Testaments of Later Mediaeval England; M. Fo...
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ROMAN WOMEN

By: D'Ambra, Eve

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 33508

ISBN: 0521818397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear. ; In-depth textbook study of the everyday lives of the women of ancient Rome. ; Cambridge Introduction To Roman Civilization; 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches; 238 pages
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WOMEN AND BEAUTY IN POMPEII

By: D'Ambrosio, Antonio

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum: 2001

Seller ID: 18441

ISBN: 0892366311

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light bump to 1 corner. Else fine. ; This volume explores the nature of female beauty in ancient Rome by studying depictions of heavenly and earthly women in Pompeiian art. The first section discusses the care of the body: hygiene, cosmetics, coiffure, and perfume. The second section discusses adornments like jewelry and clothing, and explains how such items were distributed in the Roman world. Here, archaeology and art come together to offer numerous insights into this fascinating subject. ; 67 pages
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THE EMPRESS THEOPHANO Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the First Millennium

By: Davids, Adelbert

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1995

Seller ID: 3052

ISBN: 0521452961

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 0.94 x 9.3 x 6.25 Inches; 360 pages; The Byzantine princess Theophano, who came to the West in 972 to marry the Ottonian emperor Otto II, died as empress of the Ottonian empire in Nijmegen in 991. This commemorative volume of essays, linked to a conference marking the 1000 year anniversary of her death, helps place Theophano in a broad cultural and historical context. The historical, intellectual and artistic background of her age are described by a group of leading early medievalists, with essays on her education, her surroundings, and on ...
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 25925

ISBN: 0198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light edgewear else fine. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as well as her research on the texts....
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 33486

ISBN: 0198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light shelfwear else fine. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as well as her research on the texts...
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WOMAN'S POWER, MAN'S GAME Essays on Classical Antiquity in Honor of Joy K. King

By: Deforest, Mary

Price: $23.00 USD

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers: 1993

Seller ID: 33501

ISBN: 0865162581

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Pencil underlining to a couple of pages. Very light shelfwear. ; Woman's Power, Man's Game is a revealing and thoughtful analysis of women in antiquity, as portrayed in classical literature. The book features essays by 12 classicists who provide provocative examinations of significant aspects of female situations in antiquity. Special Features* The Only Women Who Give Birth to Men: A Gynocentric, Cross-Cultural View of Women in Ancient Sparta - Bella Zweig* Re (de) fining Woman: Language and Power in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter - Kristina Passman* Women, Fat, and Fertility: Hippocratic Theoriz...
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THE RAPES OF LUCRETIA A Myth and Its Transformations

By: Donaldson, Ian

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1982

Seller ID: 5948

ISBN: 0198126387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

DJ is protected in plastic sleeve that has been taped down to boards. ; Donaldson examines the possible origins of the story, and the many ways in which, over the centuries, it has been interpreted, criticized, elaborated and transformed. The changing fortunes of the story reflect changing attitudes to suicide, republicanism, and the concept of heroism ; 216 pages
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CENTAURS AND AMAZONS Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being

By: Dubois, Page

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: University of Michigan Press: 1991

Seller ID: 32968

ISBN: 0472081535

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor shelfwear. Spine sunned. ; Women And Culture Series; 8.8 X 5.8 X 0.6 inches; 176 pages
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GESCHICHTE DER FRAUEN Bd.2: Mittelalter

By: Duby, Georges; Michelle Perrot & Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Eds)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Campus Verlag: 1993

Seller ID: 2935

ISBN: 3593349116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Vol. 2; 584 pages
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GESCHICHTE DER FRAUEN Bd.1: Antike

By: Duby, Georges; Michelle Perrot & Pauline Schmitt Pantel (Eds)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Campus Verlag: 1993

Seller ID: 2959

ISBN: 3593349108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Vol. 1
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WOMEN AND THEIR LETTERS In the Early Middle Ages

By: Duckett, Eleanor

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Smith College: 1965

Seller ID: 27331

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Light rubbing and tanning to wraps. Stapled booklet. ; The Katherine Asher Engel Lectures; 28 pages
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WOMEN IN PREHISTORY

By: Ehrenberg, Margaret

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Norman, OK, U.S.A., University of Oklahoma Press: 1989

Seller ID: 21123

ISBN: 0806122234

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to bok. DJ cut a bit short with 1 small tear. ; 192pp.; Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 192 pages
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HOLY WOMEN OF TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

By: Elkins, Sharon K.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press: 1988

Seller ID: 3907

ISBN: 0807817759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Laminate lifting along edges of DJ. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; The number of women who entered religious life in England increased greatly in the twelfth century. Monasteries for women multiplied from approximately a dozen at the centuries' beginning to ten times that many at its close. Holy Women of the Twelfth-Century England is the first systematic study of the most creative and expansive face of women's religious life in English history. Sharon Elkins portrays the women who initiated this growth and the varied forms of religious life they -- and the men cooperating with them -- devised. ; S...
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WOMEN AND WAR

By: Elshtain, Jean Bethke

Price: $4.50 USD

Publisher: Basic Books: 1987

Seller ID: 18909

ISBN: 0465092160

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine slant. Foxing to top of textblock. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; 320 pages
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SEXUAL LIFE IN OTTOMAN SOCIETY

By: Erdogan, Sema Nilgun

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Donence: 1996

Seller ID: 7528

ISBN: 9757054003

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Small sticker to front wrap. Minor shelfwear. ; 144 pages; The mysterious sex life of Ottoman society has remained a taboo subject until recent years, but even now it is not truly unveiled. Beyond the facaed of convnetional relations, the sexual life of the Ottoman was surpisingly rich and colorful. This book reveals the colourful sex lives of the Ottomans, men and women, with photos and colour illustrations, and essays and poetry of the time. An enlightening and amusing read.
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PROSTITUTES AND COURTESANS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

By: Faraone, Christopher A. & Laura K. McClure (Eds. )

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press: 2006

Seller ID: 33493

ISBN: 0299213145

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Crease through book else VG. ; Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. ; Wisconsin Studies in Classics; 376 pages
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REGARDING PENELOPE From Character to Poetics

By: Felson, Nancy

Price: $8.00 USD

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press: 1994

Seller ID: 17742

ISBN: 0806129611

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Scholars' name to titlepage (Mark Golden). Very light shelfwear else fine. ; This book explores Homer's construction of the charcter of Penelope, and his more general theory of poetic production and reception. ; 215 pages
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REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

By: Foley, Helene P. (Ed. )

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Gordon and Breach: 1981

Seller ID: 33489

ISBN: 0677163703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine is sunned and discolored. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). ; Contents: The socio-economic roles of women in Mycenaean Greece : a brief survey from evidence of the Linear B tablets / Jon-Christian Billigmeier and Judy A. Turner The divided world of Iliad VI / Marylin B. Arthur Sappho's private world / Eva S. Stigers Gardens of nymphs : public and private in Sappho's lyrics / Jack Winkler Women and culture in Herodotus' Histories / Carolyn Dewald The concept of women in Athenian drama / Helene P. Foley Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae / Froma I. Zei...
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WOMEN GOING PUBLIC Ideals and Conflicts in the Representation of Julio-Claudian Women

By: Foubert, Lien

Price: $115.00 USD

Publisher: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen: 2010

Seller ID: 8905

ISBN: 9090253122

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light shelfwear else Fine. Very light bump to bottom of spine. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ) ; 233 pages; Looks at how ancient authors and image makers came up with different ways to translate the position of imperial women of the Julian-Claudian dynasty and discusses these images from two main perspectives: first: within the context of the Roman perception of female behaviour and secondly within the framework of the Roman articulation of the separation of the spheres
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CAESARS' WIVES Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire

By: Freisenbruch, Annelise

Price: $7.00 USD

Publisher: Free Press: 2010

Seller ID: 21691

ISBN: 1416583033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has been known about who they really were and their true roles in the history-making schemes of imperial Romes ruling Caesarsindeed, how they figured in the rise, decline, and fall of the empire. ; 337 pages
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MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

By: Gies, Frances & Joseph Gies

Price: $5.00 USD

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1987

Seller ID: 14658

ISBN: 0060157917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. Light dust-soiling to textblock. DJ has a couple of hard creases to DJ flap. DJ has light tanning. ; 372 pages
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SEX AND DIFFERENCE IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

By: Golden, Mark & Peter Toohey (Eds. )

Price: $57.00 USD

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 11405

ISBN: 074861320X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Gift inscription from Peter Toohey to Martin Cropp on ffep. Creasing to rear upper corner. ; Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World; 400 pages; This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behavior and gender differences in ancient Greece and Rome including four chapters newly translated from German and French. The volume charts the extraordinary evolution of scholarly investigation of a once-hidden aspect of the ancient world. ; Signed by Editor
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Category: Women's Studies