Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity - Brossura

Pomeroy, Sarah B

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ISBN 10: 1847923836 ISBN 13: 9781847923837

Casa editrice: Bodley Head, 2015

Riassunto

‘The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome’ Mary Beard

For centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- until Sarah Pomeroy’s pioneering history, which at last revealed the women of antiquity to modern eyes.

What did daily life hold for women in ancient Greece and Rome? How many women read the great histories of Herodotus and Thucydides? Did Socrates’ wife, Xanthippe, debate with her husband on issues of beauty and truth? Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves is a foundational work of feminism, reconstructing the lives of these lost women of antiquity in order that we might better understand the roots of our own classically influenced society today.

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Recensione:

"The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome... the first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism" (Mary Beard)

"Deeply fascinating ... from Pandora to the Lemnian women who slaughtered their husbands for saying they stank, from Solon's state-controlled brothels to the scabrous writing of Juvenal and the transvestite peculariaties of Spartan marriages ... attitudes and anomalies are explored which remain valid paradigms to this day" (Observer)

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‘The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome... the first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism’ Mary Beard

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• Editore: Bodley Head
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1847923836
• ISBN 13: 9781847923837
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288