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Gender in Classical Antiquity Sources and Methods

9781444330496

Gender in Classical Antiquity Sources and Methods

  • ISBN 13:

    9781444330496

  • ISBN 10:

    1444330497

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 03/21/2022
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

The result of twenty years research, this is an eye-opening introduction to the study of gender in the classical world.

• Addresses both masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman cultures using a wide range of sources
• Written in an easy-to-read style with summaries at the start and end of each chapter to aid understanding
• Discusses a variety of materials,  including poetry, drama, myth, religion, philosophy, law, historiography, satire, letters, art, educational texts, medical and technological treatises
• Offers readers critical tools with which to analyse their own cultures to see how gender works, showing in action how studying the past illuminates one’s own society
• Organized by topic and type of evidence, rather than  chronologically, to highlight similarities and differences between Greek and Roman cultures
• Structured to work easily with sourcebooks on Greek and Roman gender

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