Pandora's daughters
the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity
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Author
Publication
1987 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2714355M
- ISBN-100801831938
- OCLC Control Number13424591
- OCLC Control Numberpandorasdaughter00cant
- Library of Congress Control Number86007292
and 2 more
- Goodreads5082812
- LibraryThing1402539
Classifications
- DDC305.4/2/0938
- LCCHQ1134 .C3513 1987
Description
Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.
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