(P/B) WOMEN AND SLAVES IN GRECO-ROMAN CULTURE

Παρουσίαση

This erudite and well-documented book investigates how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world. Examining a variety of evidence, from the love poems of Ovid and Greek medical texts, to Augustine's autobiography and the archaeological remains of a slave mining camp near Athens, and encompassing the whole antique period, Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture traces the complex and interconnected relationships between free and slave, male and female. This thought-provoking and frequently controversial book raises questions about the nature of servility and femaleness, exploring other forms of difference such as age, class and ethnicity, and drawing striking parallels with slavery in the southern United States of America. (from the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction: Different equations
Female slaves in the Odyssey
"I, whom she detested so bitterly": Slavery and the violent division of women in Aeschylus' Oresteia
Slaves with slaves: Women and class in Euripidean tragedy
Women and slaves as Hippocratic patients
Symbols of gender and status hierarchies in the Roman household
Villains, wives, and slaves in the comedies of Plautus
Women, slaves in the hierarchies of domestic violence: The family of St. Augustine
Mastering corruption: Constructions of identity in Roman oratory
Loyal slaves and loyal wives: The crisis of the outsides-within and Roman exemplum literature
Servitium amoris: Amor servitii
Remaining invisible: The archaeology of the excluded in Classical Athens
Cracking the code of silence: Athenian legal oratory and the histories of slaves and women
Notes on a membum disiectum