Table of Contents
General Introduction
Part One: Mesopotamia
Introduction
Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Female Sexuality in Mesopotamia"
Erica Couto-Ferreira—"Being mothers or acting (like) mothers?
Constructing motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia"
Claudia Suter—"Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other
Elite Women in 3rd-Millennium Mesopotamia"
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati—"Women's Power and Work in Ancient
Urkesh"
Alhena Gadotti—"Mesopotamian Women’s Cultic Roles in late 3rd –
early 2nd millennia bce"
Josué J. Justel—"Women, Gender and Law at the Dawn of History:
The Evidence of the Cuneiform Sources"
Andrew McCarthy—"Businesswomen and their Seals in Early
Mesopotamia"
Anna-Isabelle Langlois—"The Female Tavern-Keeper in
Mesopotamia: Some Aspects of Daily Life"
Saana Svärd—"Neo-Assyrian Elite Women"
Janet Monge and Page Selinsky—"Patterns of Violence Against
Women in the Iron Age Town of Hasanlu, Solduz Valley, Iran"
Maria Brosius—"No Reason to Hide – Women in the Neo-Elamite and
Persian Periods"
Part Two: Egypt
Introduction
Rosalie David—"Understanding The Lives Of Ancient Egyptian
Women: The Contribution Of Physical Anthropology"
Marc Orriols-Llonch—"Women’s role in sexual intercourse in
ancient Egypt"
Erika Feucht—"Motherhood in Pharaonic Egypt"
Suzanne Onstine—"Women's participation in the religious
hierarchy of Ancient Egypt"
Jan Picton— "Living and Working in a New Kingdom 'harem
town'"
Deborah Sweeney—"Women at Deir el-Medîna"
Katharina Zinn—"Women in Amarna: legendary royals, forgotten
elite, unknown populace?"
Joyce Tyldesley—"The Role of Egypt’s Dynastic Queens"
Jacke Phillips—"Women in Ancient Nubia"
Part Three: Hittites
Introduction
Trevor Bryce—"The Role and Status of Women in Hittite
Society"
Gary Beckman—"Birth and Motherhood among the Hittites"
Billie Jean Collins—"Women in Hittite Religion"
Part Four: Cyprus
Introduction
Kirsi O. Lorentz—"Real bones, real women, real lives:
Bioarchaeology of women in ancient Cyprus"
Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Maternity in Ancient Cyprus"
Jennifer M. Webb—"Women at home and in the community in
prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus"
Louise Steel—"The social and economic roles played by the women
of Alashiya"
Nancy Serwint—"Women and the Art of Ancient Cyprus"
Joanna Smith—"Women in the Cities of Cyprus: Rulers and Urban
Dwellers from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period"
Part Five: The Levant and Carthage
Introduction
Patrick M. Michel—"Functions and personalities of "Syrian"
Priestesses in the Bronze Age: Priestesses at Mari, Emar, and
Ugarit"
Marguerite Yon—"Women’s Daily Lives in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
(2nd millennium bce)"
Jennie Ebeling—"Women's Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan"
Kevin McGeough—"‘Will Womankind Now Be Hunting?’: The Work and
Economic Lives of Women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit"
Carol Meyers—"Women's Daily Life (Iron Age Israel)"
Assaf Yasur-Landau—"Women In Philistia: The Archaeological
Record Of The Iron Age"
Carol Meyers—"Women's Religious Life (Iron Age Israel)"
Peggy Day—""Until I Come and Take You Away to a Land Like Your
Own:" A Gendered Look at Siege Warfare and Mass Deportation"
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Meritxell Ferrer Martin—"Women's
Ritual Practice in the Western Phoenician and Punic World"
Part Six: The Aegean, Bronze Age and Historical
Introduction
John Prag—"From the Caves of the Wind to Mycenae Rich in Gold:
the faces of Minoan and Mycenaean women"
John Younger—"Minoan Women"
Stephanie Lynn Budin—"Maternity in the Bronze Age Aegean"
Cécile Boëlle-Weber—"I-je-re-ja, ka-ra-wi-po-ro and others...
Women in Mycenaean Religion"
Cynthia Shelmerdine—"Women in the Mycenaean Economy"
Brendan Burke—"Beyond Penelope: Women and the role of Textiles
in Early Greece"
Sherry Fox—"The Bioarchaeology of Women in Greek
Antiquity"
James Whitley—"Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: A
View from the Grave"
Yurie Hong—"Mothering in Ancient Athens: Class, Identity, and
Experience"
Matthew P. J. Dillon—""Chrysis The Hiereia Having Placed A
Lighted Torch Near The Garlands Then Fell Asleep (Thucydides
Iv.133.2)." Priestesses Serving The Gods And Goddesses In Classical
Greece"
Allison Glazebrook—"Prostitutes, Women, and Gender in Ancient
Greece"
Edward E. Cohen—"The Athenian Businesswoman"
Gillian Ramsey—"Hellenistic Women and the Law: Agency, Identity
and Community"
Part Seven: Etruria and the Italian Archipelago
Introduction
Fulvia Lo Schiavo and Matteo Milletti—"The Nuragic women: Facts
and hypotheses on Bronze Age Sardinian women"
Judith Swaddling—"Seianti: portrait of an Etruscan woman"
Larissa Bonfante— "Motherhood in Etruria"
Jean MacIntosh Turfa— "Health and medicine for Etruscan
women"
Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis— "Etruscan marriage
(matrimonio etrusco)"
Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis— "The wife of the prince
(la donna del principe)"
Ingrid Edlund-Berry— "Etruscan goddesses & worshipers: the
place of women in the context of urban and non-urban
sanctuaries"
Margarita Gleba— "Women and textile production in pre-Roman
Italy"
Jacopo Tabolli and M. DeLucia Brolli— "Faliscan women"
Camilla Norman— "Daunian Women: Costume And Actions
Commemorated In Stone"
Enrico Benelli— "Etruria: female slaves and slave-owners"
Part Eight: Rome
Lena Larsson Lovén— "Roman motherhood"
Emily Hemelrijk—"Women's daily life in the Roman West"
Fanny Dolansky—"Strained relations, gender differences, and
domestic ideals: the significance of two Roman family
festivals"
Hilary Wills Becker— "Roman women in the urban economy:
occupations, social connections, and gendered exclusions"
Linnea Åshede—"A demanding supply: prostitution in the Roman
World"
Elizabeth Greene—"Identities And Social Roles Of Women In
Military Settlements In The Roman West"
Anna McCullough— "Female Gladiators in the Roman Empire"
Part Nine: At the Edges
Introduction
Adrienne Mayor—"Warrior Women: The archaeology of Amazons"
Lourdes Prados Torreira— "Women in Iberian Culture: 6th–1st
centuries b.c."
Miranda Aldhouse-Green—"Viragos and Virgins: Women in the
Celtic World"
Nancy Wicker— "Women In The Roman Iron Age (A.D. 0–400) In
Scandinavia"
Part Ten: Coda
Kathy L. Gaca— "Continuities in Rape and Tyranny in Martial
Societies from Antiquity Onwards"
About the Author
Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian with a focus on
ancient Greece and the Near East. Her published works include
Artemis (2015), Images of Women and Child from the Bronze Age
(2011), The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (2008), and
The Origin of Aphrodite (2003), as well as numerous articles on
ancient religion and iconography. She lives in New Jersey with her
husband and bunnies.
Jean MacIntosh Turfa received her Ph.D. in Classical and Near
Eastern Archaeology and Latin from Bryn Mawr College, USA. She was
a consultant for the Kyle M. Phillips Etruscan Gallery of the
University of Pennsylvania Museum, where she is currently a
Consulting Scholar.
Reviews
"Women in Antiquity is an extremely useful compilation which is
intended to be, without doubt, a reference book for all those with
an interest in well-written ancient history spanning all its
complexity, a must that cannot go missing from any library."- Agnès
Garcia-Ventura, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy"For Budin and
Turfa, the 'Ancient World' takes off in the east in Mesopotamia,
runs around both shores of the Mediterranean, and ends in Iberia in
the west. In a sense, it covers the areas reached, ruled, or
influenced by the Roman Empire ... What we have are 74 (!) crisp
chapters, each written by a specialist, many of whom are sharing
with us the results of their own latest research and excavations
... Summing up Women in Antiquity, I don't care how familiar you
think you are with any of these cultures, there will be plenty new
to learn."- Judith Weingarten, review on 'Zenobia: Empress of the
East' at
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/where-are-real-women-of-ancient-world.html
"Women in Antiquity is an extremely useful compilation which is
intended to be, without doubt, a reference book for all those with
an interest in well-written ancient history spanning all its
complexity, a must that cannot go missing from any library."
- Agnès Garcia-Ventura, Università degli Studi di Roma, Italy"For
Budin and Turfa, the 'Ancient World' takes off in the east in
Mesopotamia, runs around both shores of the Mediterranean, and ends
in Iberia in the west. In a sense, it covers the areas reached,
ruled, or influenced by the Roman Empire ... What we have are 74
(!) crisp chapters, each written by a specialist, many of whom are
sharing with us the results of their own latest research and
excavations ... Summing up Women in Antiquity, I don't care how
familiar you think you are with any of these cultures, there will
be plenty new to learn."
- Judith Weingarten, review on 'Zenobia: Empress of the East' at
http://judithweingarten.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/where-are-real-women-of-ancient-world.html
"This valuable collection of papers reveals the multifarious ways
ancient women participated at all levels of their societies. Of
particular value is, first, its inclusion of cultures usually
overlooked in other collections of essays (the Celtic,
Scandinavian, Hittite), second, its temporal spread from the early
Bronze Age well into the Iron Age, and, third, its focus on
archaeological realia, documents, inscriptions and the like, rather
than on male-authored literature for male-audience consumption.
This collection of papers is an essential library resource for
programs in gender studies, ancient studies, and archaeology."
- Judith Lynn Sebesta, University of South Dakota (USA) in the Bryn
Mawr Classical Review"Since the volume spans a plethora of
different cultures, it consequently and unavoidably treats topics
that are shared among them. This allows for an interesting
comparison between different cultures, time periods and
geographical regions offering valuable insights into the particular
topic, which is after all the intention of the series. It comprises
an important contribution to archaeology in general and more
specifically to the archaeology of women"
-Christina Aamodt, AWE"Each of the articles in this huge volume
presents a distillation of work done on the role and status of
women in a particular time and place in antiquity. Particularly
welcome given the huge contemporary interest in Women’s Studies and
in view of the current “Me-Too” movement, the book provides a rich
compendium of studies on the history of women and their roles. It
will provide a useful resource to those engaging with the
issue."
-Lisbeth S. Fried and Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan, Journal
of the American Oriental Society