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Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by University of Texas Press (Paperback, 2013)

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Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield ermous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture. Yet motherhood and acts of mothering have received relatively little focused and sustained attention by modern scholars, who have concentrated almost exclusively on analyzing depictions of ancient women more generally. In this volume, experts from across the humanities present a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, to reveal the multilayered dimensions of motherhood in both Greece and Rome and to confront the fact that t all mothers and acts of mothering can be easily categorized. The authors consider a variety of mothers-from the mythical to the real, from empress to prostitute, and from citizen to foreigner-to expose both the mundane and the ideologically charged lives of mothers in the Classical world. Some essays focus on motherhood as a largely private (emotional, intimate) experience, while others explore the ramifications of public, oftentimes politicized, displays of motherhood. This state-of-the art look at mothers and mothering in the ancient world also takes on a contemporary relevance as the authors join current debates on motherhood and suggest links between the lives of ancient mothers and the diverse, often conflicting roles of women in modern Western society.

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University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292754345
ISBN-13
9780292754348
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158323562

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Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Ancient History

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596g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

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Place of Publication
Austin, Tx
Spine
22mm
Edited by
Lauren Hackworth Petersen, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell
Content Note
44 B&W Photos, 5 B&W Drawings
Author Biography
Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in Roman art and archaeology. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University. She specializes in Latin poetry, gender studies in Classical literature, film and the Classics, and the Classical tradition.
Date of Publication
01/04/2013
Genre
Ancient History
Country of Publication
United States

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