Images of women in antiquity / Edited by Averil Cameron, Amélie Kuhrt.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-318) and index.

Part One. Perceiving Women : Women ; Model for Possession by Greek Daemons - 2. Exit Atossa ; Images of Women in Greek Historiography On Persia Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg, Groningen - 3. Women and Witchcraft in Ancient Assyria Sue Rollin, London -- Part Two. Women and Power : 4. Influential Women Mary R. Lefkowitz, Wellesley, Mass - 5. The God's Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt Fay Robins, Cambridge -- Part Three. Women at Home : 6. Women and Housing in Classical Greece ; the Archaeological Evidence Susan Walker, London - 7. Women on Athenian Vases ; Problems of Interpretation Dyfri Williams, London -- Part Four. The Biology of Women : 8. Bound to Bleed ; Artemis and Greek Women Helen King, London - 9. HIttite Birth Rituals Jackie Pringle, London -- Part Five. Discovering Women : 10. Celtic Women in the Early Middle Ages Wendy Davies, London - 11. In Search of Byzantine Women ; Three Avenues of Approach Judith Herrin, London -- Part Six. The Economic Role of Women : 12. Bridewealth and Dowry in Nazi Katarzyna Grosz, Copenhagen - 13. Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece Sarah & Pomeroy, New York - 14. Women and Wealth Riet Van Bremen, London -- Part Seven. Women in Religion and Cult : 15. Goddesses, Women and Jezebel Peter R. Ackroyd, London - 16. The Naditu Women of Sippar Ulla Jeyes, London and Copenhagen - 17. The Role of Jewish Women in the Religion, Ritual and Cult Graeco-Roman Palestine Léonie J. Archer, London - 18. Women in Early Syrian Christianity Susan Ashbrook Harve, Greensboro, North Carolina.