Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture :

Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture : differential equations / Women & slaves in Greco-Roman culture edited by Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan. - London, UK ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - xii, 287 p. : illus. ; pbk ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-276) and index.

1. Introduction: Differential Equations / Sandra R. Joshel and Sheila Murnaghan --
2. Female Slaves in the Odyssey / William G. Thalmann --
3. 'I, whom she detested so bitterly': Slavery and the Violent Division of Women in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Denise McCoskey --
4. Slaves With Slaves: Women and Class in Euripidean Tragedy / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz --
5. Women and Slaves as Hippocratic Patients / Nancy Demand 6. Symbols of Gender and Status Hierarchies in the Roman Household / Richard Saller --
7. Villains, Wives, and Slaves in the Comedies of Plautus / Annalisa Rei --
8. Women, Slaves and the Hierarcies of Domestic Violence: The Family of St. Augustine / Patricia Clark --
9. Mastering Corruption: Constructions of Identity in Roman Oratory / Joy Connolly --
10. Loyal Slaves and Loyal Wives: The Crisis of the Outsider-Within and Roman Exemplum Literature / Holt Parker --
11. Servitium amoris: amor servitii / Kathleeen McCarthy --
12. Remaining Invisible: The Archaeology of the Excluded in Classical Athens / Ian Morris --
13. Cracking the Code of Silence: Athenian Legal Oratory and the Histories of Slaves and Women / Steven Johnstone --
14. Notes on a Membrum Disiectum / Shane Butler.

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Women--Greece.
Women--Rome.
Women and literature--Greece.
Women and literature--Rome.
Civilization, Classical.
Slavery in literature.
Slaves--Greece.
Slaves--Rome.

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