Women & war in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith.

Other author Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline.
Other author Keith, Alison.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015].
Descriptionviii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith -- Part I. From words to deeds : between genres -- War, speech, and the bow are not women's business / Philippe Rousseau -- Women and war in the Iliad : rhetorical and ethical implications / Marella Nappi -- Teichoskopia : female figures looking on battles / Therese Fuhrer -- Women arming men : armor and jewelry / Francois Lissarrague -- Woman and war : from the Theban Cycle to Greek tragedy / Louise Bruit -- Women after war in Seneca's Troades : a reflection on emotions / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- Love and war : feminine models, epic roles, and gender identity in Statius' Thebaid / Federica Bessone -- Elegiac women and Roman warfare / Alison Keith -- Warrior women in Roman epic / Alison Sharrock -- Part II. Women and war in historical context : discourse, representation, stakes -- War in the feminine in ancient Greece / Pierre Ducrey -- To act, not submit : women's attitudes in situations of war in ancient Greece / Stella Georgoudi -- Women's wars, censored wars? : a few Greek hypotheses (eighth to fourth centuries BCE) / Pascal Payen -- The warrior queens of Caria (fifth to fourth centuries BCE) : archeology, history and historiography / Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet -- Fulvia : the representation of an elite Roman woman warrior / Judith Hallett -- Women and imperium in Rome : imperial perspectives / Stephane Benoist -- The feminine side of war in Claudian's Epics / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer -- Index locorum -- Index nominum -- Index rerum -- Index vasorum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014046745
ISBN9781421417622 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN1421417626 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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