Name: Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves
Rating: 4.166666666666667 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9780712660549

Sarah B. Pomeroy

What did women do in Ancient Greece and Rome? Did Socrates' wife Xanthippe ever hear his dialogues on beauty and truth? How many women read the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides? When pagan goddesses were as powerful as gods, why was the status of women so low? Why, in traditional histories, is half the population effectively invisible?

Women in Classical Antiquity

Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves

âe~The classic, groundbreaking account of womenâe(tm)s lives in Greece and Romeâe(tm) Mary Beard For centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- until Sarah Pomeroyâe(tm)s pioneering history, which at last revealed the women of antiquity to modern eyes. What did daily life hold for women in ancient Greece and Rome? How many women read the great histories of Herodotus and Thucydides? Did Socratesâe(tm) wife, Xanthippe, debate with her husband on issues of beauty and truth? Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves is a foundational work of feminism, reconstructing the lives of these lost women of antiquity in order that we might better understand the roots of our own classically influenced society today.

What a find! I was browsing a used bookstore in Boston when I found this book. What a readable, heartbreaking, realistic telling of the lives of women all the way through the Bronze Age to the Roman Empire. It tells the real accounts of all social classes of women, comparing them to one another, analyzing which society held beliefs to the benefit or detriment of women. 

Paige Leitner

" The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the basic textbook on women's history in Greece and Rome has hardly been challenged." --Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement. Illustrations.

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Brianna Best

DOCKED A STAR FOR NOT HAVING A REFERENCE PAGE TO THE ANCIENT MATERIAL REFERENCED >:( Otherwise real good

Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves Women in Classical Antiquity

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