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OverviewThe 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 re-examine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer's epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca's stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war. This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris , Alison Keith (University of Toronto)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781421417622ISBN 10: 1421417626 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 09 February 2016 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. War, Speech, and the Bow Are Not Women's Business 2. Women and War in the Iliad: Rhetorical and Ethical Implications 3. Teichoskopia: Female Figures Looking on Battles 4. Women Arming Men: Armor and Jewelry 5. Woman and War: From the Theban Cycle to Greek Tragedy 6. Women after War in Seneca's Troades: A Reflection on Emotions 7. Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity inStatius's Thebaid 8. Elegiac Women and Roman Warfare 9. Warrior Women in Roman Epic 10. War in the Feminine in Ancient Greece 11. To Act, Not Submit: Women's Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece 12. Women's Wars, Censored Wars? A Few Greek Hypotheses (Eighth to FourthCenturies BCE) 13. The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archeology,History, and Historiography 14. Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Woman Warrior 15. Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial Perspectives 16. The Feminine Side of War in Claudian's EpicsReviewsThe essays in this volume open up important but neglected topics for further inquiry, and will be valuable for literary and military historians alike. In addition, the international perspectives represented will challenge scholars to venture beyond traditional interpretations and methodologies, especially regarding the study of gender in antiquity. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Author InformationJacqueline Fabre-Serris is a professor of Latin literature at the University Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3. She is the author of Rome, l'Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes: Naissance d'une mythologie des origines en Occident. Alison Keith is a professor of classics, comparative literature, medieval studies, and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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