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HELEN OF TROY AND HER SHAMELESS PHANTOM

By: Austin, Norman

Price: $45.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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WOMEN IN ANCIENT PERSIA (559-331 BC)

By: Brosius, Maria

Price: $95.00

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

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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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

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

Price: $12.00

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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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

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

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

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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PORTRAIT OF A PRIESTESS Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

By: Connelly, Joan Breton

Price: $140.00

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

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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THE AUGUSTAN LAWS ON FAMILY RELATIONS

By: Csillag, Pal

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado: 1976

Seller ID: 9979

ISBN: 9630509415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Pages tanned. Light bumping to a couple of corners. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; Examines the content of the Lex Iulia de adulteriis, the Lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus, the Lex papia Poppaea and other measures of Augustus. Augustus's laws were effective for five centuries until Justinian. ; 275 pages
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WOMEN AND BEAUTY IN POMPEII

By: D'Ambrosio, Antonio

Price: $15.00

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

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: $32.00

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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THE RAPES OF LUCRETIA A Myth and Its Transformations

By: Donaldson, Ian

Price: $100.00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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REGARDING PENELOPE From Character to Poetics

By: Felson, Nancy

Price: $8.00

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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WOMEN GOING PUBLIC Ideals and Conflicts in the Representation of Julio-Claudian Women

By: Foubert, Lien

Price: $115.00

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

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

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

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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CLEOPATRA

By: Grant, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble: 1992

Seller ID: 6045

ISBN: 0880297255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Reprint of 1972 edition. Tells the story of the real queen of Egypt, a woman thrust early into the violent and bitter politics of a declining kingdom at the mercy of a powerful and growing empire. ; 311 pages
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ROMAN RELIGION AND THE CULT OF DIANA AT ARICIA

By: Green, C. M. C.

Price: $77.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 11891

ISBN: 0521851580

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Gift inscription from author to R. E. Fantham on ffep. Top corners lightly bumped. Minor shelfwear to book. Scuffing and light scratches to DJ. Damp-staining and rippling to lower edges of DJ. Light edgewear to DJ. ; 348 pages; The sanctuary dedicated to Diana at Aricia flourished from the Bronze age to the second century CE. From its archaic beginnings in the wooded crater beside the lake known as the 'mirror of Dianea' it grew into a grand Hellenistic-style complex that attracted crowds of pilgrims and the sick. Diana was also believed to confer power on leaders. This 2007 book examines the ...
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WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY New Assessments

By: Hawley, Richard & Barbara Levick (Eds. )

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Routledge: 1995

Seller ID: 13117

ISBN: 0415113687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson --Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz --Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion? / Ken Dowden --Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin --The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon --Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl --Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy --Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou --Self-help, self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hi...
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WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY New Assessments

By: Hawley, Richard & Barbara Levick (Eds. )

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Routledge: 1995

Seller ID: 22117

ISBN: 0415113695

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

From 'daily life' to 'demography' / Beryl Rawson --Ideology and 'the status of women' in ancient Greece / Marilyn A. Katz --Approaching women through myth : vital tool or self-delusion? / Ken Dowden --Signifying difference : the myth of Pandora / Froma I. Zeitlin --The cults of Demeter and Kore / Lucia Nixon --Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens / Lin Foxholl --Women's identity and the family in the classical polis / Sarah B. Pomeroy --Some Pythagorean female virtues / Voula Lambropoulou --Self-help, self-knowledge : in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology / Helen King ...
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LE RLE JUDICIAIRE ET POLITIQUE DES FEMMES SOUS LA RPUBLIQUE ROMAINE

By: Herrmann, Claudine

Price: $47.00

Publisher: Latomus: 1964

Seller ID: 10941

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; En franais. ; Collection Latomus Volume LXVII
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MATRIARCHAL SURVIVALS And Certain Trends in Homer's Female Characters

By: Hirvonen, Kaarle

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia: 1968

Seller ID: 7674

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Looks at the influence and survivals of the ancient matriarchal society, and later reactions in the same direction that occurred despite the clear trend in favour of patriarchalism. Another area of study is the attempts of different bards, rhapsodists, and interpolators to impose their own personal views. ; Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, Sarja-Ser. B, Nide-Tom. 152; 223 pages
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THEODOSIAN EMPRESSES Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity

By: Holum, Kenneth G.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: University of California Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2953

ISBN: 0520041623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has rubbing and a few small nicks and 2-3 closed tears. ; Transformation of the Classical Heritage; 0.64 x 9 x 5.98 Inches; 325 pages; Theodosian Empresses sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern court in the fifth century.
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THE FAMILY, WOMEN, AND DEATH Comparative Studies

By: Humphreys, S. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Routledge: 1983

Seller ID: 12304

ISBN: 0710093225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Light bump near base of spine else fine. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Contents: Oikos and polis; Public and private interests in classical Athens; Women in Antiquity: Appendix I: Greeks and 'others' Appendix II: Greek Sexuality; Family in classical Athens: search for a perspective; Family tombs and tomb-cult in classical Athens: tradition or traditionalism? Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City Part I (A. Momigliano) Part II (S. C. H. ) ; Death and time; comparative perspectives on death. ; International Library of Anthropology; 210 pages
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ON PEACE, WAR, AND GENDER A Challenge to Genetic Explanations

By: Hunter, Anne E. (Ed. ) & Catherine M. Flamenbaum & Suzanne R. Sunday (Assoc. Eds. )

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY: 1993

Seller ID: 25786

ISBN: 1558610251

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Minor spine slant. ; Genes and Gender VI; 192 pages
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WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY [ARETHUSA 6.1]

By: J. P. Sullivan; John Peradotto & Robert K. Sherk (Eds. ) Et Al.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: SUNY Press: 1973

Seller ID: 30696

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Minor browning to wraps. Minor shelfwear. Foxing to top of textblock. ; Early Greece: The Origins of the Western Attitude Toward Women Marylin B. Arthur; Classical Greek Attitudes to Sexual Behaviour K. J. Dover; Plato: Misogynist, Phaedophile, and Feminist Dorothea Wender; The Women of Etruria Larissa Bonfante Warren; The Role of Women in Roman Elegy: Counter-Cultural Feminism Judith P. Hallett; Selected Bibliography on Women in Classical Antiquity Sarah B. Pomeroy; Abortion in Antiquity Sheila K. Dickison; Arethusa. Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1973; Vol. 6.1; 166 pages
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WOMEN, MEN AND EUNUCHS Gender in Byzantium

By: James, Liz (Ed. )

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Routledge: 1997

Seller ID: 5900

ISBN: 0415146852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

240 pages; For the first time, the collected papers in this volume present an introduction to the history of women, of men, and eunuchs--or the third sex--in Byzantium, and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both written documents and various artwork to offer a broad picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that society.
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BYZANTINISCHE FORSCHUNGEN. INTERNATIONALE ZEITSCHRIFT FUR BYZANTINISTIK BAND XXIII: "Komnenian Culture" Papers from the Session At the 20th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 21 September 1994

By: Kaegi, Walter E. (Hrsg. ) ; Annemarie Weyl Carr & Barbara Hill & Charles M. Brand & Thalia Gouma Peterson & Sarolta A. Takcs

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert: 1996

Seller ID: 14618

ISBN: 9025611052

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Faint light bump to top section of spine else fine. ; Full subtitle: Revised papers that were originally read at the session entitled "Komnenian culture" : papers from the session at the 20th annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 21 September 1994. ; Byzantinische Forschungen. Band XXIII; Vol. 23; 163 pages; Introduction, Komnenian culture / Annemarie Weyl Carr --The ideal imperial Komnenian woman / Barbara Hill --Slave women in the legislation of Alexius I / Charles M. Brand --Engendered category or recognizable life : Anna Komnene and her Alexiad / Thalia Goum...
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SEXUALITY IN ANCIENT ART Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy

By: Kampen, Nathalie Boymel (Ed. ) with Bettina Bergman & Ada Cohen & Page Dubois, Barbara Kellum & Eva Steh

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1996

Seller ID: 25426

ISBN: 0521476836

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Chipping to 2 corners. Light edgewear. ; Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; 320 pages
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SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME With Sixteen Full-Page Plates

By: Kiefer, Otto & [Gilbert and Helen Highet, (Trans. ) ]

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Abbey Library: 1971

Seller ID: 17457

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Browning to pages. Minor shelfwear. Old bookstore stamp to ffep. ; Looks at different types of marriages, prostitution, sadistic instinct in education of children, treatment of slaves & erotic element in Roman religion. ; 380 pages
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Category: Women's Studies