Women in the Classical World

Reviews / Votes

This collaborative volume stakes a place for itself in the ever-expanding publications lists on women in antiquity as a novel kind of sourcebook...this volume gives considerable weight to visual as well as written material and attempts to set both within a coherent and contextualising account of the lives of ancient women Times Higher Education Supplement 'this volume offers a good introduction both to the range of source material relating to women in antiquity, and to some, at least, of the problems of interpretation it raises. Times Literary Supplement a combination of adroitly chosen texts in translation, including a good mixture of inscriptions, and most imaginatively selected...most impressive and will provide an earnest student with an invaluable tool. Greece and Rome Reviews 42 a wide-ranging collection of the most important primary sources for the lives of "ancient women"...The book contains a wealth of illustrations... This scholarly book would be a most useful resource for Classical Civilisation courses, both at University and A level... the book is very clearly laid out and I do recommend it as a library source. JACT review This collaborative volume stakes a place for itself in the ever expanding publication lists on women in antiquity as a novel kind of sourcebook. With its lavish and attractive illustrations, its juxtaposition of vase-painting with Greek poetry, coins with Roman historiiography, the volume is now likely to supercede that of Lefkowitz and Fant and be of considerable bibliographic use to students new to the field. Maria Wyke, University of Reading, Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. LXXXVIII 1996