Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: WOMEN IN MYTH 1. Myth: an introduction 2. Creation myth 3. The Olympian goddesses: virgins and mothers 4. Women in the poems of Home 5. Amazons PART II: THE ARCHAIC AGE, 750-500 BC 6. Women in an age of transition 7. Women and the poets 8. Women as poets: Sappho 9. Women in stone PART III: THE CLASSICAL AGE, 500-336 BC 10. Women's bodies 11. Women in Athenian law and society 12. The lives of women in Classical Athens 13. Sparta and Gortyn 14. Women and religion PART IV: IDEAS ABOUT WOMEN IN THE CLASSICAL AGE 15. Women in drama 16. Women and the philosophers 17. Women in Classical sculpture POSTSCRIPT 18. The Hellenistic Age Notes Bibliography Quotation acknowledgements Illustration acknowledgements Index ILLUSTRATIONS Plates 1-26 Plates 27-45
Sue Blundell is a Lecturer for both Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges in the University of London as well as for the Open University. She is the author of The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought.
In her introduction to Women in Ancient Greece Sue Blundell notes how few overviews have appeared among the plethora of books and articles on women's lives and representations in the ancient Greek world...Her book is an admirable response to the need for such an overview. In a concise narrative account incorporating much of the recent scholarly work, Blundell offers a broad survey of the most relevant topics for the study of women in Greece during the period 750-336 B.C...Blundell's narrative is seldom merely descriptive; rather, throughout her exposition, she guides her readers to recognize the ways ancient representations and institutions associated with the female are a production of male issues, concern and power. -- R.J. Schork New England Classical Journal Blundell offers here an excellent, brief survey of women in archaic and classical Greek art, literature, and history. It is the sole comprehensive account in English of women in ancient Greece (as opposed to Greece and Rome). Blundell's reading is wide, her thought judicious, her prose clear, and her insight penetrating. She has a good bibliography, decent notes, and well-chosen illustrations...Recommended for all college and university libraries. -- J.M. Williams Choice
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