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Women and Slaves in Classical Cultureexamines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.
The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including:
* the mythical constructions of epic and drama
* the love poems of Ovid
* the Greek medical writers
* Augustine's autobiography
* a haunting account of an unnamed Roman slave
* the archaeological remains of a slave mining camp near Athens.
They argue that the distinctions between male and female and servile and free were inextricably connected.
This erudite and well-documented book provokes questions about how we can hope to recapture the experience and subjectivity of ancient women and slaves and addresses the ways in which femaleness and servility interacted with other forms of difference, such as class, gender and status.Women and Slaves in Classical Cultureoffers a stimulating and frequently controversial insight into the complexities of gender and status in the Greco-Roman world.
Sandra R. Joshelteaches ancient history, myth and culture and women's studies in the Liberal Arts Department of the New England Conservatory of Music. She is the author ofWork, Identity and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions(1992).Sheila Murnaghanis Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author ofDisguise and Recognition in the Odyssey(1987).
