The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE) / / edited by Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen.

• Superior document: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023
• TeilnehmendeR: Dirven, Lucinda,; Icks, Martijn,; Remijsen, Sofie,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.; Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 468.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)

Building on the important work by Hemelrijk, this volume endeavours to bring ancient women out of the domestic sphere and to examine their presence and activities in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims. Covering the period 500 BCE to 650 CE and ranging across the Mediterranean and beyond, it fruitfully employs a great variety of source types and thematic approaches to argue that women in the ancient world were active in many parts of the public domain, including the civic, the religious and at times even the political and military spheres.

Table of Contents

List of Figures -- Introduction -- Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen -- Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk -- 1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World -- Rolf Strootman -- 2 Empresses Taking Charge -- The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources -- Martijn Icks -- 3 Zenobia versus Mawia -- A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World -- Lucinda Dirven -- 4 Image and Reality -- The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora -- Daniëlle Slootjes -- 5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis -- A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription -- Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen -- 6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere -- Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome -- Onno M. van Nijf -- 7 Women on Time -- Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt -- Sofie Remijsen -- 8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae -- Bacchus’ Women in Rome -- Emilia Salerno -- 9 Discourses of a Changing Society -- Women’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War -- Lien Foubert -- 10 Present in Public Lettering -- The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor -- Evelien J.J. Roels -- 11 Publicly Luxurious -- Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain -- Anique Hamelink -- 12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress -- The Women of Dura-Europos -- Sanne Klaver -- 13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia -- Marlena Whiting.