TY - BOOK AU - Brulé,Pierre TI - Women of Ancient Greece SN - 9780748616435 AV - HQ1134 .B78 2003 U1 - 938.0082 22 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Women KW - Greece KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Classics & Ancient History KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Publisher's Acknowledgement --; Prologue: Which paths will lead us to them? --; 1 The feminine and the sacred --; 2 Women of the epics --; 3 On the body and sexuality --; 4 Joys and miseries of married life --; 5 The woman in the 'house' --; 6 The women on the outside --; Epilogue: How shall we take our leave of them? --; Bibliography --; Index of Classical Authors --; General Index; restricted access N2 - Pierre Brulé's brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, including their religious, familial and domestic duties, their economic importance, and their social, moral and legal status as wives, cohabitees or slaves. He examines their sexual roles, what the status of a woman's body was and what her own and others' attitudes were likely to be towards it. Professor Brulé does all this in the context of the development and achievements of Greek civilisation.Women appear not to have been highly regarded in ancient Greece, with female infanticide a common practice. Strains of misogyny can be heard in Greek literature, drama and philosophy: 'The most unintelligent people in the world' is how one character refers to women in Plato's Symposium (which also features Diotima, his best-known female sage). Women had few duties beyond the home, and the evidence that they existed at all is tantalisingly small. Yet by piecing together fragments and clues, the author gives us a vivid account of women's lives in Greece 2,500 years ago.Pierre Brulé's deft scholarship and engaging style make this fascinating history always readable, sometimes moving, and often entertaining UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748679843?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748679843 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748679843/original ER -