Search Results: Women in Ancient Greece from KALAMOS BOOKS

New York: Checkmark Books, 2000 Book. New. Soft cover. First Edition.. 298p. illus bibliography. index.

New York: St Martins Press, 1998 Book. As New. Trade Paperback. Reprint. The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things. Their consuming passions for food, wine and sex drove their society, as well as generating the rich web of privilege, transgression, guilt and taboo for which they are remembered today. Using pamphlets, comic satires, forensic speeches - from authors as illustrious as Plato and as ignored as Philaenis - as source material - this study combines a traditional classicist's rigour with an appreciation of the new analytical techniques pioneered in gender and cultural studies to provide an alternative view of ancient Athenian culture and to bring its reality into a focus easier on the modern eye. A fascinating investigation of how ancient Athenians looked at food and women and sex..372p. plates. bibliography.index..

New York: HarperCollins., 1977 Book. New. Hardcover. Fascinating investigation of how ancient Athenians looked at food and women and sex. ". new light not only on ancient pleasures but on the Ancient World in general, unearthing surprising insights into Athenian society and the politics of the worl d's first democracy." HC. 372p. illus.bibliography.index. Condition : New.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Book. New. Trade Paperback. 1st Pbk Ed... The experiences of women in ancient cultures were certainly very difficult from those of most women today. Yet a tendency to focus too much on the restrictions early Western women faced has until now provided readers with an incomplete picture. In Daughters of Gaia, Bella Vivante explores womens lives in four ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. Looking at this era with a women-centered perspective, Vivante highlights womens agency and explains the social, political, and cultural factors that fostered female empowerment. Beginning with powerful images of goddesses and womens roles in the religious sphere, Vivante lays the foundation for womens activities in other social realms--Health, economica, governance, war, philosophy, and poetry. By examining the similarities and differences among the four Mediterranean civilizations, she offers a deeper understanding of the lives of… Read More

New York: Schocken Books, 1975 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. Reprint. Sarah Pomeroy has consulted archaeological data, documents, historical writing, and the literature of the high civilization of Greece and Rome with minute attention. Her book is free of anachronistic speculation about what women must have felt, speculation projected back from our age to the past. She does not draw large conclusions or form sweeping generalizations, but the details she has gathered here speak for themselves and do not readily leave the mind. Included are photographs, endnotes, a bibliography, and an index. Wide ranging examination of the evidence for the various roles and perceptions of women in Greek and Roman society. 265p. plates.bibliography.index.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. (Series: Reading Women Writing) .

Baltimore, MD: Time-Life Books, 1987 Book. Illus. by Tran.s Maureen B Fant. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First published in Italian as "L'ambiguo malanno" by Editori Riuniti.. Translated by Maureen Fant . Foreword By M.R. Lefkowitz.1981. 228p. index. Crisp tight copy. spine sun faded, else near fine. .

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937 Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Thus. A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including 'Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos- - one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed. 319p.frontis. plates, maps,index. Cloth binding fading along spine.

New York: Frederick A.Stokes, 1982 Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Canadian Edition. (Small stamp on title page states " Canadian Edition For Sale in Canada only") A solid, scholarly and interesting biography of this poetess, including "Every known fragment of Sappho's poetry is quoted in full .(using) the Greek text as edited by J.M.Edmonds in his Lyra Greca" . The notion that there were two Sapphos-one the poet and the other the courtesan-is discussed and dismissed."With 13 reproductions from sketches and photographs" 328p. plates, maps,index. Name of previous owner, Rear end paper missing .

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed... "The author examines the military and political history of Thebes, and also investigates a number ofd other aspects of life in the city: its physical layout, cults, poetry and music, arts and crafts, philosophy, the interpretation of the proper role of women. with a chapter on Pythagoreanism. and an investigation, extending thoughout the book, of the role of women in Theban society" 196p. plates ( B & W) bibliography. index.

Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1990 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition. " Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century B. C. And ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century A. D., Jane McIntosh Snyder listens carefully to the major women writers of classical Greece and Rome, piecing together the surviving fragments of their works into a coherent analysis that places them in their literary, historical, and intellectual contexts.;Beginning with Sappho in the seventh century BC and ending with Hypatia and Egeria in the fifth century AD" 199p. bibliography ,index.0550410375.

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1983 Book. Good>Very Good. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed.. Interesting collection of essays about women's role and conditions of life in the ancient world by a wide ranging array of scholars : Marylin B.Arthur, Helene P.Foley, Linda S.Sussman, Page du Bois, Sheila McNally, K.J.Dover, Froma I.Zeitlin, Charles Segal, Dorothea Wender, Larissa Bonfante Warren, Judith P.Hallett, Leo C.Curran, Elizabeth A,.Fisher, Sarah B.Pomeroy. 377.p. illus bibliographty index. Some underlinings..

London: Pan., 1959 Book. Very Good. Pbk. Reprint. Vintage paperback copy. 184p. Illus.plates bibliography. index Book tight and unmarked but paper age toned, else near finr.

Athens: American School of Classical Studies, 2006 Book. New Book from Greece. Soft cover. First Thus. Evidence from the excavations in thre Athenian Agora of the life of women in classical Greece. In addition details of the women who helped in the excavations of the American School. 56p. Illus (some col).

Toronto: Samuel-Stevens, 1977 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Reprint. A collection of translated documents illustrating the life of women in classical times. " The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The resulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject.225p. index.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2005 Book. As New. Soft cover. 3rd American Edition.. " . this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The res ulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject.The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book,420p. illus bibliography. index.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Ed. " ... this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to priestesses, poets, and intellectuals, to working women, such as musicians, wet nurses, and prostitutes, to homemakers. The editors have selected texts from hard-to-find sources, such as inscriptions, papyri, and medical treatises, many of which have not previously been translated into English. The res ulting compilation is both an invaluable aid to research and a clear guide through this complex subject.387p. illus bibliography. index [a few underlinings].

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1983 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 2nd Ed. Revised and enlarged edition of "Women in Greece and Rome" A Collection of translated documents illustrating the life of women in classical times.293p.bibliography, index..

New York: W.W.Norton, 1994 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Ed... Fascinating account of the contibution of women to early cultures, with archaeological and anthropological evidence for their skills in weaving, spinning and the development of textiles. 334.illus Bibliography. index.