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Women's life in Greece & Rome : a source book in translation / [compiled by] Mary R. Lefkowitz, Maureen B. Fant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 [reprintited 1993]Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxv, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801844751
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1127 .W66 1993
Contents:
I. WOMEN'S VOICES : Female poets : Sappho ; 1. To Aphrodite - 2. When I look at you - 3. Anactoria - 4. Parting - 5. Remembering the girl Atthis - 6. The wedding of Hector and Andromache - Corinna ; 7. The contest of Cithaeron and Helicon - 8. Reflections on a woman poet - Praxilla ; 9. Two fragments - Erinna ; 10. Childhood - 11. Two epigrams for Baucis - Anyte ; 12. Miletus - 13. Antibia - 14. Thersis - 15. Philaenis - Nossis ; 16. To Hera - 17. To Aphrodite - 18. To Artemis - 19. Polyarchis - 20. Thaumarete - 21. Callo - Sulpicia ; 22. To Messala - 23. To Cerinthus - Claudia Trophime ; 24. Two epigrams - Inscribed on the Colossus of Memnon ; 25. Caecilia Trebulla - 26. Balbilla - 27. Damo - Men's words in women's mouths : 28. Medea's complaint - 29. Andromache's ideal behaviour - 30. How a wife ought to behave - 31. Deianeira contrasts childhood with life after marriage - 32. The lot of women: Procne - 33. Pasiphae - 34. In defence of women - 35. A fragment of a comedy -- II. MEN'S OPINIONS : Praise : Inscriptions ; 36. Archedice - 37. Aspasia - 38. Dionysia - 39. Claudia - 40. Eucharis - 41. Amymone, housewife - 42. An accomplished woman - 43. Murdia - 44. Pythion and Epicydilla - 45. From the tomb of the Statilii - 46. Epitaph for a little girl, Politta - 47. Allia Potestas - 48. Athenodora - 49. Urbana, housewife - 50. Macria Helike, a Christian - Literary sources ; 51. Cornelia's noble nature - 52. Tiberius chooses to die in place of Cornelia - 53. Womanly virtue - Invective : 54. Pandora - 55. How to pick a wife - 56. The nature of women - 57. The female mind - 58. The best days in a woman's life - Greek tragedy ; 59. The uselessness of women - 60. The unreasonableness of women - 61. The worthlessness of women - Satire and irony ; 62. Woman as the equivalent of evil - 63. Weighing bad women against good - 64. The price of a wife - 65. Wives and courtesans compared - 66. An overbearing wife - 67. The dangers of literacy - 68. The disadvantage of a rich wife - 69. Juvenal on women in general - 70. Bereavement - 71. Cicero on Clodia -- III. PHILOSOPHERS ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN : 72. The female role - 73. Educating women to make them more like men - 74. Men and women should be treated alike - 75. A Roman philosopher advocates women's education -- IV. LEGAL STATUS IN THE GREEK WORLD : Crete : 76. Laws relating to women - Athens : 77. Funeral law - 78. The banker Pasion's willed - 79. Aristotle's will - 80. Provisions for female children - 81. Married heiresses - 82. Widow of Diodotus - 83. Property - 84. Maintenance - 85. Payment of a dowry - 86. Proof of marriage - 87. A mistress's scheme - 88. A husband's defence - 89. The case for the prosecution in a poisoning trial - 90. The past activities of a courtesan - Amorgos : 91. A mortgage - 92. Security for a dowry - 93. Transactions with a society - 94. Leased property - Sparta : 95. Opinions attributed to the sophist Gorgias - 96. A saying attributed to the philosopher Antisthenes - 97. The education of Spartan mothers - 98. The advantages of Spartan education and marriage customs - 99. Anecdotes - 100. The behaviour of Etruscan women - Egypt : 101. A marriage contract - 102. Annulment of a marriage contract - 103. Agreement to transfer a concubine - 104. Problems over a dowry - 105. A wife requests restitution of a dowry - 106. A husband complains that his wife stole his property -- V. LEGAL STATUS IN THE ROMAN WORLD : Early Rome : 107. The laws of the kings - 108. The Twelve Tables (excerpts) - 109. Husbands' punishment of wives - 110. The first divorce for sterility - 111. Punishment for adultery - The Roman jurists : On women's status within the family ; 112. On guardianship - 113. Patria potestas and adoption - 114. Patria potestas - 115. Guardianship - 116. Guardianship - 117. Guardianship - 118. Pregnancy, status, and paternity - 119. Children of slaves - On the Julian marriage laws ; 120. Men must marry - 121. Prizes for marriage and having children - 122. Augustus' law - 123. The consequences of adultery - 124. Petitions to the emperor - 125. Adultery - 126. Concubinage - 127. The right of life and death - 128. Social status and marriage - 129. Social status - On marriage : 130. Consent as the basis of marriage - 131. Consent as the basis of marriage - 132. Marital subordination - 133. Social status and citizenship of children - 134. Marriage after adultery - 135. Eligibility for marriage - 136. Conditions for the dissolution of marriage - 137. The dowry - On legal powers of women ; 138. How women could make use of their freedom to contract - 139. The wife's property - 140. Division of property between husband and wife - 141. The husband's liability - On sexual mores ; 142. Adultery defined - 143. Prostitution - 144. Punishments - 145. Marriage with a freedman - 146. How a woman loses her social status - 147. Rape - Roman Egypt : 148. Marriage and inheritance - 149. A final dowry payment - 150. Dowry payment through a bank - 151. Legitimacy - 152. A mother's last will and testament - 153. Calpurnia Heraclea, a woman landowner - 154. A woman's petition to act without a kyrios - 155. A prostitute and her mother - 156. A husband's complaint about an assault on his wife - 157. A woman greengrocer brings a charge - 158. A violent quarrel - 159. A wife's complaint against an abusive husband -- VI. PUBLIC LIFE : Women's bravery in legend and history : Legend ; 160. The courage of the poet Telesilla - 161. Marpessa and the defence of Tegea - 162. A memorial to Telesilla - 163. Thargalia - 164. Artemisia, the sea-captain - 165. Cloelia the hostage - 166. The rape of Lucretia - History ; 167. Women who risked their lives to save their husbands - 168. A funeral eulogy - 169. Pythias, a courageous slave-woman - 170. On Arria - 171. Arria's death - 172. On Fannia - Political life : 173. Women demonstrate and obtain repeal of the Oppian law - 174. Sempronia, a revolutionary - 175. A portrait of Cleopatra - 176. Hortensia's speech - 177. Caenis, concubine of the Emperor Vespasian - 178. Women advocates - 179. Electioneering - 180. The family of Julia Domna - Women's organisations : 181. A trade union? - 182. A women's club - 183. The curia of women - 184. The women's collegium - 185. A grant for funeral rites - 186. The matrons - 187. Raising money - 188. A meeting of married women - 189. A women's 'senate' - 190. A plan to restore the 'senate' - Honorific inscriptions : 191. The chaste Asë - 192. Aufria, woman of letters - 193. Lalla of Arneae (gymnasiarch) - 194. A benefactress - 195. Food for children - 196. Eumachia - 197. Junia Theodora - 198. Flavia Publicia Nicomachis - 199. Modia Quintia - 200. Aurelia - 201. Scholasticia - Victors : 202. A royal victor - 203. Winner of a four-horse chariot race - 204. Winner of a two-horse chariot race - 205. From the Panathenaic victor lists - 206. Women victors - 207. Melosa -- VII. PRIVATE LIFE : Correct behaviour : 208. Chastity - 209. Greek and Roman customs compared - 210. Imperial upbringing - 211. Seating for gladiatorial shows - 212. The household of P. Larcius Nicia - Education of females : 213. The education of Eurydice - 214. The need for educated parents - 215. Heraidous, a girl who is learning to read - Intellectual life : 216. Plato's female pupils - 217. A female philosopher - 218. Epigram on Hipparchia - 219. A learned woman - 220. Agrippina's memoirs - 221. A philosopher - 222. A Roman philosopher - 223. Women's eloquence - 224. Sulpicia - 225. Sayings attributed to Aspasia by Socrates - Women and women : 226. Biote - 227. Praxidice and Dyseris - 228. The dildo - 229. Going to a festival - 230. The go-between - 231. Lesbians as a bad omen - 232. A letter from a soldier's wife - Women and men : 233. The rape of the Sabine women - 234. 'Birth control' - 235. The courtesan Aspasia, mistress of Pericles - 236. Disadvantages of a liberal education - 237. Melite - 238. Betrayal - 239. A butcher and his wife - 240. Graffito on a tomb - 241. Women unfavourably compared with boy lovers - 242. Advice on marriage - 243. To Calpurnia Hispulla - 244. To his wife Calpurnia - 245. To Calpurnia - 246. To Calpurnia - 247. To Calpurnius Fabatus - 248. From a husband who misses his wife - Babies : 249. Exposure of a female child - 250. Hiring a wet-nurse - 251. Graxia who nursed her own children - 252. A letter from a parent offering to pay for a wet-nurse - 253. The philosopher Favorinus on breast-feeding - Parents and children : 254. Posilla Senenia - 255. A mother's request - 256. A mother's last wish - 257. A mother's instructions about her son's education - 258. The good old days - 259. Cornelia's children - A letter from Cornelia to Gaius Gracchus - 261. Seneca to his mother - 262. The death of the Helvidiae - 263. The death of Minicia Marcella - 264. Epitaph of Minicia Marcella - 265. Julia, daughter of Augustus - 266. Julia's wit - The home : 267. How to train a wife - 268. Latter forom a woman about domestic matters - 269. Latter from a woman managing an estate - Celebrations : 270. Attempts to explain Roman marriage customs - 271. A wedding invitation - 272. A birthday party - Epitaphs : 273. Phrasicleia - 274. Bitte - 275. Xenoclea - 276. From a husband - 277. A widower - 278. Epitaph with curse - 279. A devoted couple - 280. Fom the second husband - 281. From a father - 282. From a mother -- VIII. OCCUPATIONS : Apprenticeship : 283. An apprenticeship agreement - Self-employment : 284. An incentive to female enterprise - 285. Valeria Maxima, owner of a farm - 286. Nemeas the aulos player - 287. Prostitutes - 288. The trial of the hetaera Phryne of Thespiae - 289. The palace brothel - 290. The senate vs. Vistilia - 291. Justinian on pimps - 292. Vibia Calybenis, the procuress - 293. Graffiti - 294. A runaway slave - Women gladiators : 295. Freedom - 296. Lady gladiators - 297. In the Colosseum - 298. Domitian's entertainment for the masses - 299. Lion slayers - 300. Amazons in the Colosseum - 301. Fans - 302. Septimius Severus calls a halt - The arts and entertainment : 303. An exceptional tumbler - 304. A tumbler - 305. Aglaïs the trumpet-player - 306. A harpist - 307. Women painters - 308. An actress - 309. A troupe of castanet-dancers - 310. Menophila - 311. A citharist - 312. Phoebe Vocontia - 313. Twin singers - 314. A musical family - 315. A singer - 316. A lutenist - Skilled labour : 317. Handiwork - 318. Handiwork - 319. A weaver of gold - 320. A reader - 321. A dressmaker - Sales and services : 322. A washerwoman - 323. A society of launderers - 324. A grocer - 325. The women's market - 326. A bar-maid - Papyri ; 327. Egypt, 3rd cent. BC - 328. Egypt, Roman Imperial period - Inscriptions ; 329. Occupations of freedwomen - 330. Occupations of freed women - 331. Occupations of freedwomen - 332. Occupations of women, from inscriptions gravestones - 333. A storeroom attendant - 334. Women in the service of the imperial household - 335. Occupations of slaves and freedwomen in Italy - 336. Occupations in Roman Athens - 337. Jobs named on lead curse tablets -- IX. MEDICINE AND ANATOMY : Philosophers observe nature : 338. Origins of the desire for procreation - 339. The female role in generation - 340. Menstruation - Writings of practising physicians : The Hippocratic Corpus ; 341. Intercourse, conception and pregnancy - 342. A contraceptive - 343. Women's illnesses - 344. Displacement of the womb - 345. Hysterical suffocation - 346. Dislocation of the womb - 347. Dropsy in the womb - 348. The dangerous periods during pregnancy - 349. Hysteria in virgins - 350. Case histories - Galen ; 351. Comparison of male and female anatomy - 352. Psychological origins of hysteria - Aretaeus of Cappadocia ; 353. The wandering womb - 354. Inflammation of the womb - Soranus ; 355. Menstruation, conception, contraception and abortion - 356. Childbirth: instructions for the midwife - 357. Treatment for hysterical suffocation - Writings on medical matters by laymen : 358. The women of Miletus (a traditional story) - 359. Pregnancy - 360. Treatments for diseases of the womb - 361. The dangers of sharing a bath with women - 362. Side effects of menstruation - Case histories from inscriptions : 363. Epitaph for a woman who died while pregnant - 364. Malpractice - 365. Death in childbirth - 366. Death in childbirth - 367. Taking the cure - 368. Socratea - Female medical ractitioners : Physicians ; 369. Antiochis - 370. Primilla - 371. Terentia Prima - 372. Four doctors - 373. Panthia - 374. Domnina - Midwives ; 375. Qualities and training - 376. A midwife and physician - 377. Epitaphs of midwives - 378. Epitaph of a midwife - Wet-nurses ; 379. A nurse - 380. Advice on hiring a wet-nurse - 381. Two contracts for wet-nurses for slave children - 382. Receipt of wages for nursing -- X. RELIGION : Dionysus / Bacchus : 383. Imported Phrygian rituals - 384. Rules of ritual - 385. Epitaph for & priestess - 386. Authorisation to establish a temple - 387. Equipment for women's orgiastic rites - 388. Senatus consultum de bacchanalibus - 389. Rules in the cult of Dionysus - 390. The festival of Agrionia - Hera : 391. Chysis, priestess of Hera - 392. The cult of Hera - Demeter : 393. The story of Persephone - 394. THesmophoria - 395. Regulations for women attending the festival of Demeter - 396. The order of the procession at the Mysteries - Athena : 397. Inscribed monument dedicated by a woman - 398. The priestess and temple of Athena Nike - 399. The. The religious duties of aristocratic young girls - 400. A procession - Artemis : 401. A puberty ritual - 402. Offerings to Artemis at Brauron - 403. Dedications to Artemis Brauronia - 404. Ritual procedures - Aphrodite : 405. Dedication of statues of women - Asclepius : 406. Cures of women's diseases - xix. Serapis : 407. A petition to Ptolemy and Cleopatra - Vesta : 408. Vestal Virgins - 409. Vestal Virgins - 410. Augustus and the Vestal Virgins - 411. Inscription to the chief Vestal - Bona Dea : 412. A divine portent - 413. Desecration of the rites of the Bona Dea - Witchcraft : 414. Medea - 415. A love potion - 416. Bitto's curse - 417. Ingredients for a love charm - 418. Epitaph with a curse - 419. A comprehensive curse - 420. A curse against Aristo - 421. A curse against Aristocydes - 422. A remedy for induration of the breasts - 423. A remedy for ascent of the womb - 424. Women alchemists - Priestesses : 425. Mamia - 426. Priestesses at the sanctuary of Hilaeira and Phoebe - 427. Priestesses of Eileithyia and Zeus Sosipolis at Olympia - 428. Flavia Ammon - 429. The priestess Lalla - 430. Tullia, priestess of Hestia - 431. The priestess Alexandria - 432. Tata - 433. Cassia Victoria - 434. Theano the arrhephoros - 435. Thesmophane - 436. A priestess of Demeter at Eleusis - 437. Berenice - 438. Flavia Vibia Sabina - 439. Paulina, priestess of several mystery cults - 440. Umbria Matronica - Christianity : 441. Teachings of Paul of Tarsus on women - 442. Teachings about women attributed to Paul - 443. The conversion of Lydia and the exorcism of a slave-girl - 444. St Thecla's devotion to St Paul - 445. The martyrdom of St Perpetua - 446. Persecution under Diocletian - 447. Gnostic ritual - 448. Drinking parties - 449. Celibacy - 450. St Macrina and her mother Emmelia - Late pagan 'saints' : 451. The martyrdom of the pagan philosopher Hypatia - 452. Sosipatra the philosopher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-366) and indexes.

I. WOMEN'S VOICES : Female poets : Sappho ; 1. To Aphrodite - 2. When I look at you - 3. Anactoria - 4. Parting - 5. Remembering the girl Atthis - 6. The wedding of Hector and Andromache - Corinna ; 7. The contest of Cithaeron and Helicon - 8. Reflections on a woman poet - Praxilla ; 9. Two fragments - Erinna ; 10. Childhood - 11. Two epigrams for Baucis - Anyte ; 12. Miletus - 13. Antibia - 14. Thersis - 15. Philaenis - Nossis ; 16. To Hera - 17. To Aphrodite - 18. To Artemis - 19. Polyarchis - 20. Thaumarete - 21. Callo - Sulpicia ; 22. To Messala - 23. To Cerinthus - Claudia Trophime ; 24. Two epigrams - Inscribed on the Colossus of Memnon ; 25. Caecilia Trebulla - 26. Balbilla - 27. Damo - Men's words in women's mouths : 28. Medea's complaint - 29. Andromache's ideal behaviour - 30. How a wife ought to behave - 31. Deianeira contrasts childhood with life after marriage - 32. The lot of women: Procne - 33. Pasiphae - 34. In defence of women - 35. A fragment of a comedy -- II. MEN'S OPINIONS : Praise : Inscriptions ; 36. Archedice - 37. Aspasia - 38. Dionysia - 39. Claudia - 40. Eucharis - 41. Amymone, housewife - 42. An accomplished woman - 43. Murdia - 44. Pythion and Epicydilla - 45. From the tomb of the Statilii - 46. Epitaph for a little girl, Politta - 47. Allia Potestas - 48. Athenodora - 49. Urbana, housewife - 50. Macria Helike, a Christian - Literary sources ; 51. Cornelia's noble nature - 52. Tiberius chooses to die in place of Cornelia - 53. Womanly virtue - Invective : 54. Pandora - 55. How to pick a wife - 56. The nature of women - 57. The female mind - 58. The best days in a woman's life - Greek tragedy ; 59. The uselessness of women - 60. The unreasonableness of women - 61. The worthlessness of women - Satire and irony ; 62. Woman as the equivalent of evil - 63. Weighing bad women against good - 64. The price of a wife - 65. Wives and courtesans compared - 66. An overbearing wife - 67. The dangers of literacy - 68. The disadvantage of a rich wife - 69. Juvenal on women in general - 70. Bereavement - 71. Cicero on Clodia -- III. PHILOSOPHERS ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN : 72. The female role - 73. Educating women to make them more like men - 74. Men and women should be treated alike - 75. A Roman philosopher advocates women's education -- IV. LEGAL STATUS IN THE GREEK WORLD : Crete : 76. Laws relating to women - Athens : 77. Funeral law - 78. The banker Pasion's willed - 79. Aristotle's will - 80. Provisions for female children - 81. Married heiresses - 82. Widow of Diodotus - 83. Property - 84. Maintenance - 85. Payment of a dowry - 86. Proof of marriage - 87. A mistress's scheme - 88. A husband's defence - 89. The case for the prosecution in a poisoning trial - 90. The past activities of a courtesan - Amorgos : 91. A mortgage - 92. Security for a dowry - 93. Transactions with a society - 94. Leased property - Sparta : 95. Opinions attributed to the sophist Gorgias - 96. A saying attributed to the philosopher Antisthenes - 97. The education of Spartan mothers - 98. The advantages of Spartan education and marriage customs - 99. Anecdotes - 100. The behaviour of Etruscan women - Egypt : 101. A marriage contract - 102. Annulment of a marriage contract - 103. Agreement to transfer a concubine - 104. Problems over a dowry - 105. A wife requests restitution of a dowry - 106. A husband complains that his wife stole his property -- V. LEGAL STATUS IN THE ROMAN WORLD : Early Rome : 107. The laws of the kings - 108. The Twelve Tables (excerpts) - 109. Husbands' punishment of wives - 110. The first divorce for sterility - 111. Punishment for adultery - The Roman jurists : On women's status within the family ; 112. On guardianship - 113. Patria potestas and adoption - 114. Patria potestas - 115. Guardianship - 116. Guardianship - 117. Guardianship - 118. Pregnancy, status, and paternity - 119. Children of slaves - On the Julian marriage laws ; 120. Men must marry - 121. Prizes for marriage and having children - 122. Augustus' law - 123. The consequences of adultery - 124. Petitions to the emperor - 125. Adultery - 126. Concubinage - 127. The right of life and death - 128. Social status and marriage - 129. Social status - On marriage : 130. Consent as the basis of marriage - 131. Consent as the basis of marriage - 132. Marital subordination - 133. Social status and citizenship of children - 134. Marriage after adultery - 135. Eligibility for marriage - 136. Conditions for the dissolution of marriage - 137. The dowry - On legal powers of women ; 138. How women could make use of their freedom to contract - 139. The wife's property - 140. Division of property between husband and wife - 141. The husband's liability - On sexual mores ; 142. Adultery defined - 143. Prostitution - 144. Punishments - 145. Marriage with a freedman - 146. How a woman loses her social status - 147. Rape - Roman Egypt : 148. Marriage and inheritance - 149. A final dowry payment - 150. Dowry payment through a bank - 151. Legitimacy - 152. A mother's last will and testament - 153. Calpurnia Heraclea, a woman landowner - 154. A woman's petition to act without a kyrios - 155. A prostitute and her mother - 156. A husband's complaint about an assault on his wife - 157. A woman greengrocer brings a charge - 158. A violent quarrel - 159. A wife's complaint against an abusive husband -- VI. PUBLIC LIFE : Women's bravery in legend and history : Legend ; 160. The courage of the poet Telesilla - 161. Marpessa and the defence of Tegea - 162. A memorial to Telesilla - 163. Thargalia - 164. Artemisia, the sea-captain - 165. Cloelia the hostage - 166. The rape of Lucretia - History ; 167. Women who risked their lives to save their husbands - 168. A funeral eulogy - 169. Pythias, a courageous slave-woman - 170. On Arria - 171. Arria's death - 172. On Fannia - Political life : 173. Women demonstrate and obtain repeal of the Oppian law - 174. Sempronia, a revolutionary - 175. A portrait of Cleopatra - 176. Hortensia's speech - 177. Caenis, concubine of the Emperor Vespasian - 178. Women advocates - 179. Electioneering - 180. The family of Julia Domna - Women's organisations : 181. A trade union? - 182. A women's club - 183. The curia of women - 184. The women's collegium - 185. A grant for funeral rites - 186. The matrons - 187. Raising money - 188. A meeting of married women - 189. A women's 'senate' - 190. A plan to restore the 'senate' - Honorific inscriptions : 191. The chaste Asë - 192. Aufria, woman of letters - 193. Lalla of Arneae (gymnasiarch) - 194. A benefactress - 195. Food for children - 196. Eumachia - 197. Junia Theodora - 198. Flavia Publicia Nicomachis - 199. Modia Quintia - 200. Aurelia - 201. Scholasticia - Victors : 202. A royal victor - 203. Winner of a four-horse chariot race - 204. Winner of a two-horse chariot race - 205. From the Panathenaic victor lists - 206. Women victors - 207. Melosa -- VII. PRIVATE LIFE : Correct behaviour : 208. Chastity - 209. Greek and Roman customs compared - 210. Imperial upbringing - 211. Seating for gladiatorial shows - 212. The household of P. Larcius Nicia - Education of females : 213. The education of Eurydice - 214. The need for educated parents - 215. Heraidous, a girl who is learning to read - Intellectual life : 216. Plato's female pupils - 217. A female philosopher - 218. Epigram on Hipparchia - 219. A learned woman - 220. Agrippina's memoirs - 221. A philosopher - 222. A Roman philosopher - 223. Women's eloquence - 224. Sulpicia - 225. Sayings attributed to Aspasia by Socrates - Women and women : 226. Biote - 227. Praxidice and Dyseris - 228. The dildo - 229. Going to a festival - 230. The go-between - 231. Lesbians as a bad omen - 232. A letter from a soldier's wife - Women and men : 233. The rape of the Sabine women - 234. 'Birth control' - 235. The courtesan Aspasia, mistress of Pericles - 236. Disadvantages of a liberal education - 237. Melite - 238. Betrayal - 239. A butcher and his wife - 240. Graffito on a tomb - 241. Women unfavourably compared with boy lovers - 242. Advice on marriage - 243. To Calpurnia Hispulla - 244. To his wife Calpurnia - 245. To Calpurnia - 246. To Calpurnia - 247. To Calpurnius Fabatus - 248. From a husband who misses his wife - Babies : 249. Exposure of a female child - 250. Hiring a wet-nurse - 251. Graxia who nursed her own children - 252. A letter from a parent offering to pay for a wet-nurse - 253. The philosopher Favorinus on breast-feeding - Parents and children : 254. Posilla Senenia - 255. A mother's request - 256. A mother's last wish - 257. A mother's instructions about her son's education - 258. The good old days - 259. Cornelia's children - A letter from Cornelia to Gaius Gracchus - 261. Seneca to his mother - 262. The death of the Helvidiae - 263. The death of Minicia Marcella - 264. Epitaph of Minicia Marcella - 265. Julia, daughter of Augustus - 266. Julia's wit - The home : 267. How to train a wife - 268. Latter forom a woman about domestic matters - 269. Latter from a woman managing an estate - Celebrations : 270. Attempts to explain Roman marriage customs - 271. A wedding invitation - 272. A birthday party - Epitaphs : 273. Phrasicleia - 274. Bitte - 275. Xenoclea - 276. From a husband - 277. A widower - 278. Epitaph with curse - 279. A devoted couple - 280. Fom the second husband - 281. From a father - 282. From a mother -- VIII. OCCUPATIONS : Apprenticeship : 283. An apprenticeship agreement - Self-employment : 284. An incentive to female enterprise - 285. Valeria Maxima, owner of a farm - 286. Nemeas the aulos player - 287. Prostitutes - 288. The trial of the hetaera Phryne of Thespiae - 289. The palace brothel - 290. The senate vs. Vistilia - 291. Justinian on pimps - 292. Vibia Calybenis, the procuress - 293. Graffiti - 294. A runaway slave - Women gladiators : 295. Freedom - 296. Lady gladiators - 297. In the Colosseum - 298. Domitian's entertainment for the masses - 299. Lion slayers - 300. Amazons in the Colosseum - 301. Fans - 302. Septimius Severus calls a halt - The arts and entertainment : 303. An exceptional tumbler - 304. A tumbler - 305. Aglaïs the trumpet-player - 306. A harpist - 307. Women painters - 308. An actress - 309. A troupe of castanet-dancers - 310. Menophila - 311. A citharist - 312. Phoebe Vocontia - 313. Twin singers - 314. A musical family - 315. A singer - 316. A lutenist - Skilled labour : 317. Handiwork - 318. Handiwork - 319. A weaver of gold - 320. A reader - 321. A dressmaker - Sales and services : 322. A washerwoman - 323. A society of launderers - 324. A grocer - 325. The women's market - 326. A bar-maid - Papyri ; 327. Egypt, 3rd cent. BC - 328. Egypt, Roman Imperial period - Inscriptions ; 329. Occupations of freedwomen - 330. Occupations of freed women - 331. Occupations of freedwomen - 332. Occupations of women, from inscriptions gravestones - 333. A storeroom attendant - 334. Women in the service of the imperial household - 335. Occupations of slaves and freedwomen in Italy - 336. Occupations in Roman Athens - 337. Jobs named on lead curse tablets -- IX. MEDICINE AND ANATOMY : Philosophers observe nature : 338. Origins of the desire for procreation - 339. The female role in generation - 340. Menstruation - Writings of practising physicians : The Hippocratic Corpus ; 341. Intercourse, conception and pregnancy - 342. A contraceptive - 343. Women's illnesses - 344. Displacement of the womb - 345. Hysterical suffocation - 346. Dislocation of the womb - 347. Dropsy in the womb - 348. The dangerous periods during pregnancy - 349. Hysteria in virgins - 350. Case histories - Galen ; 351. Comparison of male and female anatomy - 352. Psychological origins of hysteria - Aretaeus of Cappadocia ; 353. The wandering womb - 354. Inflammation of the womb - Soranus ; 355. Menstruation, conception, contraception and abortion - 356. Childbirth: instructions for the midwife - 357. Treatment for hysterical suffocation - Writings on medical matters by laymen : 358. The women of Miletus (a traditional story) - 359. Pregnancy - 360. Treatments for diseases of the womb - 361. The dangers of sharing a bath with women - 362. Side effects of menstruation - Case histories from inscriptions : 363. Epitaph for a woman who died while pregnant - 364. Malpractice - 365. Death in childbirth - 366. Death in childbirth - 367. Taking the cure - 368. Socratea - Female medical ractitioners : Physicians ; 369. Antiochis - 370. Primilla - 371. Terentia Prima - 372. Four doctors - 373. Panthia - 374. Domnina - Midwives ; 375. Qualities and training - 376. A midwife and physician - 377. Epitaphs of midwives - 378. Epitaph of a midwife - Wet-nurses ; 379. A nurse - 380. Advice on hiring a wet-nurse - 381. Two contracts for wet-nurses for slave children - 382. Receipt of wages for nursing -- X. RELIGION : Dionysus / Bacchus : 383. Imported Phrygian rituals - 384. Rules of ritual - 385. Epitaph for & priestess - 386. Authorisation to establish a temple - 387. Equipment for women's orgiastic rites - 388. Senatus consultum de bacchanalibus - 389. Rules in the cult of Dionysus - 390. The festival of Agrionia - Hera : 391. Chysis, priestess of Hera - 392. The cult of Hera - Demeter : 393. The story of Persephone - 394. THesmophoria - 395. Regulations for women attending the festival of Demeter - 396. The order of the procession at the Mysteries - Athena : 397. Inscribed monument dedicated by a woman - 398. The priestess and temple of Athena Nike - 399. The. The religious duties of aristocratic young girls - 400. A procession - Artemis : 401. A puberty ritual - 402. Offerings to Artemis at Brauron - 403. Dedications to Artemis Brauronia - 404. Ritual procedures - Aphrodite : 405. Dedication of statues of women - Asclepius : 406. Cures of women's diseases - xix. Serapis : 407. A petition to Ptolemy and Cleopatra - Vesta : 408. Vestal Virgins - 409. Vestal Virgins - 410. Augustus and the Vestal Virgins - 411. Inscription to the chief Vestal - Bona Dea : 412. A divine portent - 413. Desecration of the rites of the Bona Dea - Witchcraft : 414. Medea - 415. A love potion - 416. Bitto's curse - 417. Ingredients for a love charm - 418. Epitaph with a curse - 419. A comprehensive curse - 420. A curse against Aristo - 421. A curse against Aristocydes - 422. A remedy for induration of the breasts - 423. A remedy for ascent of the womb - 424. Women alchemists - Priestesses : 425. Mamia - 426. Priestesses at the sanctuary of Hilaeira and Phoebe - 427. Priestesses of Eileithyia and Zeus Sosipolis at Olympia - 428. Flavia Ammon - 429. The priestess Lalla - 430. Tullia, priestess of Hestia - 431. The priestess Alexandria - 432. Tata - 433. Cassia Victoria - 434. Theano the arrhephoros - 435. Thesmophane - 436. A priestess of Demeter at Eleusis - 437. Berenice - 438. Flavia Vibia Sabina - 439. Paulina, priestess of several mystery cults - 440. Umbria Matronica - Christianity : 441. Teachings of Paul of Tarsus on women - 442. Teachings about women attributed to Paul - 443. The conversion of Lydia and the exorcism of a slave-girl - 444. St Thecla's devotion to St Paul - 445. The martyrdom of St Perpetua - 446. Persecution under Diocletian - 447. Gnostic ritual - 448. Drinking parties - 449. Celibacy - 450. St Macrina and her mother Emmelia - Late pagan 'saints' : 451. The martyrdom of the pagan philosopher Hypatia - 452. Sosipatra the philosopher.

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