Women in the Athenian Agora

Women in the Athenian Agora
Author: Susan I. Rotroff
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2006
Genre: Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN: 0876616449

Using evidence from the Athenian Agora, the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played: as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, craftspeople, producers, and consumers. A final section moves from the ancient world to the modern, discussing the role of women as archaeologists in the early years of the Agora excavations.

Live Alone and Like It

Live Alone and Like It
Author: Marjorie Hillis
Publisher: 5 Spot
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2009-11-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0446571172

In this witty, engaging guide, a renowned Vogue editor takes readers through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, "for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief." "Whether you view your one-woman ménage as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it." Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Though it was 1936 when the Vogue editor first shared her wisdom with her fellow singletons, the tome has been passed lovingly through the generations, and is even more apt today than when it was first published. Hillis, a true bon vivant, was sick and tired of hearing single women carping about their living arrangements and lonely lives; this book is her invaluable wake-up call for single women to take control and enjoy their circumstances. With engaging chapter titles like "A Lady and Her Liquor" and "The Pleasures of a Single Bed," along with a new preface by author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss A Lot of Frogs), Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to live-aloners—and those considering taking the plunge.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Author: Jenifer Neils
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108484557

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1916
Genre: Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN:

Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens

Politics and the Street in Democratic Athens
Author: Alex Gottesman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2014-10-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107041686

This book examines 'informal' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more 'formal' politics of assembly and courts.

Tan Men/Pale Women

Tan Men/Pale Women
Author: Mary Ann Eaverly
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0472119117

Investigating the history behind color as a method of gender differentiation in ancient Greek and Egyptian art

The Symposium in Context

The Symposium in Context
Author: Kathleen M. Lynch
Publisher: ASCSA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0876615469

This book presents the first well-preserved set of sympotic pottery which served a Late Archaic house in the Athenian Agora. The deposit contains household and fine-ware pottery, nearly all the figured pieces of which are forms associated with communal drinking. Since it comes from a single house, the pottery also reflects purchasing patterns and thematic preferences of the homeowner. The multifaceted approach adopted in this book shows that meaning and use are inherently related, and that through archaeology one can restore a context of use for a class of objects frequently studied in isolation. Winner of the 2013 James R. Wiseman Book Award given by the Archaeological Institute of America.

The Athenian Adonia in Context

The Athenian Adonia in Context
Author: Laurialan Reitzammer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0299308200

A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.

The Athenian Woman

The Athenian Woman
Author: Sian Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135128324

Here Sian Lewis considers the full range of female existence in classical Greece - childhood and old age, unfree and foreign status, and the ageless woman characteristic of Athenian red-figure painting. Ceramics are an unparalleled resource for women's lives in ancient Greece, since they show a huge number of female types and activities. Yet it can be difficult to interpret the meanings of these images, especially when they seem to conflict with literary sources. This much-needed study shows that it is vital to see the vases as archaeology as well as art, since context is the key to understanding which images can stand as evidence for the real lives of women, and which should be reassessed.

Women in Ancient Greece

Women in Ancient Greece
Author: Sue Blundell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674954731

Largely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position - and how they were regarded by men.