The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 Bce-650 Ce)

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53329-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 468, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

Building on the important work by Emily A. Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dirven, Lucinda

Icks, Martijn

Remijsen, Sofie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction

Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen

Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk

1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World

Rolf Strootman

2 Empresses Taking Charge

The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources

Martijn Icks

3 Zenobia versus Mawia

A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World

Lucinda Dirven

4 Image and Reality

The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora

Daniëlle Slootjes

5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis

A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription

Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen

6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere

Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome

Onno M. van Nijf

7 Women on Time

Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt

Sofie Remijsen

8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae

Bacchus’ Women in Rome

Emilia Salerno

9 Discourses of a Changing Society

Women’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War

Lien Foubert

10 Present in Public Lettering

The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor

Evelien J.J. Roels

11 Publicly Luxurious

Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain

Anique Hamelink

12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress

The Women of Dura-Europos

Sanne Klaver

13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia

Marlena Whiting

Über Autor(innen)

Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D, is professor by special appointment in Ancient religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She works on religions of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Roman Near East.

Martijn Icks, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on Roman emperors and their representation, on the reception of Classical culture and on character assassination as a cross-cultural phenomenon.

Sofie Remijsen, Ph.D is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on various aspects of social and cultural history in the Mediterranean, including sport and festivals. Currently she is leading a project on Lived Time in Late-Antique Egypt.

Contributors are: Josine H. Blok, Lucinda Dirven, Anique Hamelink, Martijn Icks, Lien Foubert, Sanne Klaver, Onno M. van Nijf, Sofie Remijsen, Evelien J.J. Roels, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Emila Salerno, Daniëlle Slootjes, Rolf Strootman, Marlena Whiting.