Public Roles & Personal Status:
Men & Women in Antiquity
Proceedings of the Third Nordic Symposium on
Gender & Women's History in Antiquity

Edited by Lena Larsson Loven & Agneta Stromberg
November 2007
Paul Astroms Forlag
ISBN: 9789170812378
285 pages, illustrated
$125.00 hardcover

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Partial Contents:

I. GENDER IN MATERIAL CULTURE
Social Status of Mycenaean Women
Etruscan Women & Power
Women in Tomb Painting

II. MALE & FEMALE SOCIAL ROLES & VIRTUES
Sarcophagi Status for Women & Men
A Great Roman Lady
Gendered Identities in Roman Myths

III. WOMEN & MEN IN RELIGION & RITES-OF-PASSAGE
Cypriote Boys
History of the Homeric Priestess
Vestal Virgins

IV. ENGENDERING SEXUAL ROLES IN ANCIENT GREECE
Male Homosexuality in Athens
Mythological Identities

Index of Names
List of Plates
Plates

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