Encyclopedia of women in the ancient world / Joyce E. Salisbury ; foreword by Mary Lefkowitz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2001.Description: xxiii, 385 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 1576070925 (hard : alk. paper)
- 1576075850 (e-book : alk. paper)
- Women in the ancient world
- 903 21
- HQ1127 .S25 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This extensive and engaging A-to-Z encyclopedia, illustrated with many rare and revealing images, tells the stories of the famous and the ordinary, treating subjects as diverse as Greek heroine cults, the daily life of the German warrior women, and the intrigue, glory and power of ancient Rome's imperial women. Hundreds of well-researched entries, each with suggestions for further reading, give a rounded view of the lives of women in the ancient world.