Women and war in antiquity / edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline (Author, Editor)
Keith, Alison (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Women and war > Greece > History.
Women and war > Rome > History.
Women > Greece > History.
Women > Rome > History.
Women soldiers > Greece > History.
Women soldiers > Rome > History.
War and society > Greece > History.
War and society > Rome > History.
War and society.
Women.
Women and war.
Women soldiers.
Greece > History, Military.
Rome > History, Military.
Greece.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Military history.
Genre:
History.
Military history.
Physical Description:viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith
  • Part I. From words to deeds : between genres
  • War, speech, and the bow are not women's business / Philippe Rousseau
  • Women and war in the Iliad : rhetorical and ethical implications / Marella Nappi
  • Teichoskopia : female figures looking on battles / Therese Fuhrer
  • Women arming men : armor and jewelry / Francois Lissarrague
  • Woman and war : from the Theban Cycle to Greek tragedy / Louise Bruit
  • Women after war in Seneca's Troades : a reflection on emotions / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
  • Love and war : feminine models, epic roles, and gender identity in Statius' Thebaid / Federica Bessone
  • Elegiac women and Roman warfare / Alison Keith
  • Warrior women in Roman epic / Alison Sharrock
  • Part II. Women and war in historical context : discourse, representation, stakes
  • War in the feminine in ancient Greece / Pierre Ducrey
  • To act, not submit : women's attitudes in situations of war in ancient Greece / Stella Georgoudi
  • Women's wars, censored wars? : a few Greek hypotheses (eighth to fourth centuries BCE) / Pascal Payen
  • The warrior queens of Caria (fifth to fourth centuries BCE) : archeology, history and historiography / Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet
  • Fulvia : the representation of an elite Roman woman warrior / Judith Hallett
  • Women and imperium in Rome : imperial perspectives / Stephane Benoist
  • The feminine side of war in Claudian's Epics / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
  • Index locorum
  • Index nominum
  • Index rerum
  • Index vasorum.