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Hardcover:
9780691634586 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $187.50
Paperback:
9780691605654 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $75.00
9780691002224 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $24.95
Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male. Looking at politics, economics, science, law and the arts, the contributors examine examples from around the ancient world asking how far traditional definitions of culture describe male spheres of activity, and examining to what extent these spheres were actually created and perpetuated by women. Women’s Influence of Classical Civilization provides students with a valuable wider perspective on the roles and influence of women in the societies of the Greek and Roman worlds.
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9780415309578 | Routledge, May 1, 2004, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male.
Paperback:
9780415309585 | Routledge, September 30, 2004, cover price $42.95
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Hardcover:
9780415162296 | Routledge, August 1, 1998, cover price $150.00
Paperback:
9780415261593 | Routledge, October 1, 2001, cover price $43.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203983164 | Routledge, June 21, 2001, cover price $39.95
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Hardcover:
9780742515246 | New rev edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2001), cover price $98.00
Paperback:
9780742515253 | New rev edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, June 1, 2001), cover price $42.00
Product Description: In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community...read more
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9780822630630 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices.
Product Description: In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community...read more
Hardcover:
9780822630623 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 1, 1997, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices.
Product Description: According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity...read more
Hardcover:
9780691032726 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $52.50
Paperback:
9780691037622 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 8, 1994), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil.
Hardcover:
9780674363205 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1990, cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Explores ancient sexuality, focusing on symbolism as well as on beliefs, and explores the concept of the female body in Greece before the impact of Christianity
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9780873957731 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Book by
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