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.