Women and War in Antiquity Tapa dura - 2015

Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Very Good. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf wear. Very Good.

Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Like New. 2015. Hardcover. Fine.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. 1421417626 . Upper outer corners of pages in front are bumped. ; 341 pages .

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-12-15. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Hardcover. New. A collection of scholarly work showing how women played a greater role in battle and war than previously thought. New hardcover with print on boards. B & W photos. Maps. Bibliography. Contains Indexes Locorum, Nominum and Rerum. 360 pp. Publisher's blurb, The martial virtues―courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength―were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity,… Leer más

Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins University Press,. Fine. 2015. Hardcover. 1421417626 . First printing. Fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. .

Second printing. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x9.25", is new. viii/341 pages."The martial virtues--courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength--were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In "Women and War in Antiquity," sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat. The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer's epics and the major tragedies in… Leer más