Images of women in antiquity / edited by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt.
| Other author | Cameron, Averil. |
| Other author | Kuhrt, Amelie. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Detroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1993. |
| Description | xviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Women : model for possession by Greek daemons -- Exit Atossa : images of women in Greek historiography -- Women and witchcraft in ancient Assyria Influential women -- God's wife of Amun in the 18th dynasty in Egypt -- Women and housing in classical Greece -- Women on Athenian vases -- Bound to bleed : Artemis and Greek women -- Hittite birth rituals -- Celtic women in the early Middle Ages -- In search of Byzantine women -- Bridewealth and dowry in Nuzi -- Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece -- Women and wealth -- Goddesses, women and Jezebel -- Naditu women of Sippar -- Role of Jewish women in the religion, ritual and cult of Graeco-Roman Palestine -- Women in early Syrian Christianity. |
| General note | "Rev. ed."--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 92062619 |
| ISBN | 0814324665 : |
| ISBN | 9780814324660 |