Women and War in Antiquity

by Alison Keith

Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.

The martial virtues--courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength--were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421417626
• ISBN13: 9781421417622
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.0"