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Book 1986

Pandora's Daughters

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Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Published
1986
  • History
  • Ancient - Greece
  • History - General History
  • Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Women's Studies - History
  • Ancient Greece
  • Civilization, Classical
  • Greece

Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.