Images of women in antiquity / edited by Averil Cameron and Amelie Kuhrt.

Other author Cameron, Averil.
Other author Kuhrt, Amelie.
Format Book
Publication InfoDetroit : Wayne State University Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxviii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and indexes.
LCCN 92062619
ISBN0814324665 :
ISBN9780814324660