The Public Lives Of Ancient Women 500 Bce 650 Ce
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The Public Lives Of Ancient Women 500 Bce 650 Ce
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-02-13
The Public Lives Of Ancient Women 500 Bce 650 Ce written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-13 with History categories.
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.
Time And Ancient Medicine
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Author : Kassandra J. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-08
Time And Ancient Medicine written by Kassandra J. Miller and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-08 with History categories.
Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society. The study seeks, first, to offer a chronological narrative of how timekeeping technologies and medical practices evolved and influenced one another in ancient Greece and Rome, with consideration of relevant Pharaonic Egyptian and Assyro-Babylonian precedents. Kassandra J. Miller turns to a series of case studies, drawn from the Roman Imperial period, to investigate thematic questions, asking how debates over medical timekeeping interacted with debates over proper scientific methodology, the status of medicine as a formal art, and the relationships between medicine and other disciplines like mathematics, astronomy, and astrology. Throughout, this study places epigraphic, artistic, and other material evidence for hourly timekeeping in dialogue with selections from medical literature, some of which has not previously been published in modern-language translation. Ultimately, this study reveals that time and timekeeping played fundamental roles in ancient medical debates and practices and challenges the traditional narrative that the social history of “clock time” only begins with the invention of the mechanical clock in the Medieval period. It offers new insights into the specific ways that physicians of the ancient Mediterranean engaged with their evolving temporal landscapes and raises questions about the relationships between time and medicine in the modern day.
Drawing Lots
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Author : Irad Malkin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Drawing Lots written by Irad Malkin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek innovation, drawing lots for governance inspires new democratic politics today.
Women S History And Ancient History
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Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Women S History And Ancient History written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles developed as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Despite the public lives that some upper-class Greek and Roman women led, they maintained their female identity and respectability. Moreover, the role of women, even of those active in the public sphere, generally remained complementary to that of men. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. -- From publisher's description.
Women S Life In Greece And Rome
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Author : Maureen B. Fant
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-28
Women S Life In Greece And Rome written by Maureen B. Fant and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-28 with History categories.
This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The resulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject. The brand new design of the fourth edition integrates the third edition's appendix and adds many new and unusual texts and images, as well as such student-friendly features as a map and chapter overviews. Many notes and explanations have been revised with the non-classicist in mind. Its readings cover women's legal status, domestic conditions, health issues, and relations with other people. The emphasis throughout is not so much on what ancient writers thought about women, as on what women actually did, both within the home and outside it, from their intellectual achievements, benefactions, and religious roles, to humble jobs and acts of physical and moral courage.
A Cultural History Of Women In Antiquity
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Author : Janet H. Tulloch
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2016-09-22
A Cultural History Of Women In Antiquity written by Janet H. Tulloch and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with History categories.
A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women's history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000CE. This time period includes women's participation in Greek and Roman civilization, and the Christianization of the Roman Empire up to Late Antiquity. Key issues include the impact of changing cultural forces and discourses on female autonomy and agency, women's relationship to public and religious circles of power, and women's status in domestic and public space. A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity presents an overview of the period with essays on female sexual practices, literacy, education and work, medical treatments and authority, ritual office and superstitious practices, cultural transitions and representation, and differences between ideology and actual social practices in identifying women's use of public and private space.
Women In Ancient Greece
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Author : Sue Blundell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Women In Ancient Greece written by Sue Blundell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
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 economic position - and how they were regarded by men.
Women S Life In Greece Rome
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Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1992
Women S Life In Greece Rome written by Mary R. Lefkowitz and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.
Women S History And Ancient History
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Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Women S History And Ancient History written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Electronic books categories.
Women In Ancient Societies
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Author : Léonie J. Archer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Women In Ancient Societies written by Léonie J. Archer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
This book represents research currently being undertaken on women's lives and their representations in various ancient societies, and clearly reflects the degrees to which various disciplines have developed in their approach to the female in antiquity. The authors examine the extent to which they are or are not isolated from the influence of work in other fields. This book demonstrates that illusions can be challenged. It scrutinizes and takes apart the construct of male imagination. It disturbs an apparently settled order, in antiquity and today.