Gender in Classical Antiquity: Sources and Methods

By Richard Hawley

Book Overview

The result of twenty years research, this is an eye-opening introduction to the study of gender in the classical world. - Addresses both masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman cultures using a wide range of sources - Written in an easy-to-read style with summaries at the start and end of each chapter to aid understanding - Discusses a variety of materials, including poetry, drama, myth, religion, philosophy, law, historiography, satire, letters, art, educational texts, medical and technological treatises - Offers readers critical tools with which to analyse their own cultures to see how gender works, showing in action how studying the past illuminates one's own society - Organized by topic and type of evidence, rather than chronologically, to highlight similarities and differences between Greek and Roman cultures - Structured to work easily with sourcebooks on Greek and Roman gender

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1444330497
• ISBN13: 9781444330496
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 252 Pages