Lc Classification Number
Hq759.M8786 2011
Reviews
A recent collection of essays on motherhood and mothering in antiquity, Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome, reminds us that questions about what it means to be a mother were also present in ancient Greek and Roman societies, despite some significant differences., A recent collection of essays on motherhood and mothering in antiquity, Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome , reminds us that questions about what it means to be a mother were also present in ancient Greek and Roman societies, despite some significant differences.
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Public and Private Faces of Mothering and Motherhood in Classical Antiquity (Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell) 2. Maternity and Miasma: Dress and the Transition from Parthenos to Gune (Mireille M. Lee) 3. Motherhood as Teleia : Rituals of Incorporation at the Kourotrophic Shrine (Angela Taraskiewicz) 4. Collaboration and Conflict: Discourses of Maternity in Hippocratic Gynecology and Embryology (Yurie Hong) 5. Citizen-Mothers on the Tragic Stage (Angeliki Tzanetou) 6. Working Girls: Mother-Daughter Bonds among Ancient Prostitutes (Anise K. Strong) 7. Tenderness or Taboo: Images of Breast-Feeding Mothers in Greek and Latin Literature (Patricia Salzman-Mitchell) 8. Mater Patriae : Cleopatra and Roman Ideas of Motherhood (Prudence Jones) 9. Mater Amoris : Mothers and Lovers in Augustan Rome (Genevieve Liveley) 10. Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro : Mothers in Flavian Epic (Antony Augoustakis) 11. Imperial Mothers and Monuments in Rome (Margaret L. Woodhull) Notes on Contributors Index
Copyright Date
2012
Topic
Ancient / Rome, Ancient / Greece, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies
Lccn
2011-034997
Dewey Decimal
306.874/30938
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, History, Social Science
