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

Women and war in antiquity /edited by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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



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Women and war--History.--Greece
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War and society--History.--Greece
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