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Building on the important work by Emily A. 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.

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Author:   Lucinda Dirven ,  Martijn Icks ,  Sofie Remijsen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   468
Weight:   0.683kg
ISBN:  

9789004533295

ISBN 10:   900453329
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D, is professor by special appointment in Ancient religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She works on religions of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Roman Near East. Martijn Icks, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on Roman emperors and their representation, on the reception of Classical culture and on character assassination as a cross-cultural phenomenon. Sofie Remijsen, Ph.D is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on various aspects of social and cultural history in the Mediterranean, including sport and festivals. Currently she is leading a project on Lived Time in Late-Antique Egypt. Contributors are: Josine H. Blok, Lucinda Dirven, Anique Hamelink, Martijn Icks, Lien Foubert, Sanne Klaver, Onno M. van Nijf, Sofie Remijsen, Evelien J.J. Roels, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Emila Salerno, Daniëlle Slootjes, Rolf Strootman, Marlena Whiting.

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