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This pioneering collection has been updated with new materials, new translations, and a wealth of references to further reading. It demands to be used not only in gender and women's studies courses but in every ancient history and civilization class. -- Emma Dench, Harvard University, author of Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian New documents, new translations, and new illustrations make this revised, fourth edition a richer and more illuminating resource. -- Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park, author of Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family The fourth edition not only offers a wealth of new material, but new translations and illustrations. The book is also more user-friendly for students in important ways, with more comprehensive identifications of the sources in the table of contents and individual headings, and with notes at the end of each chapter. I look forward to using the textbook in my course. -- K. Sara Myers, University of Virginia, author of Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface to the fourth edition
Acknowledgements
1. Women's Voices
2. Men's Opinions
3. Philosophers on the Role of Women
4. Legal Status in the Greek World
5. Legal Status in the Roman World
6. Public Life
7. Private Life
8. Occupations
9. Medicine and Anatomy
10. Religion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Concordance of sources
Index of women and goddesses
General Index

About the Author

Mary R. Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Wellesley College. She is the author of Women in Greek Myth and Lives of the Greek Poets. Maureen B. Fant studied classics and archaeology at the University of Michigan and is now a writer and editor living in Rome, Italy.

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