Spartan women / Sarah B. Pomeroy.

By:

Pomeroy, Sarah B

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 198 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780198030003
0198030002
6610833133
9786610833139

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spartan women.DDC classification:

305.4/09389 22

LOC classification:

HQ1134 .P66 2002eb

Other classification:

15.51
LG 7550
MS 3000
NH 6850
NH 6860
NH 5410
NW 8100
6,12

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Contents:

1. Education -- 2. Becoming a wife -- 3. The creation of mothers -- 4. Elite women -- 5. The lower classes -- 6. Women and religion.

In: EBLSummary: Publisher description: Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most liberated of the ancient world, receiving formal instruction in poetry, music, dance, and physical education. And the most famous of mythic Greek women, Helen of Troy, was originally a Spartan. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, Spartan Women seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta's women, including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. In this book, Sarah Pomeroy covers over a thousand years in the lives of Sparta's women from both the elite and lower classes. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, and Pomeroy comprehensively analyzes ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the history of these elusive though much noticed women.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.

1. Education -- 2. Becoming a wife -- 3. The creation of mothers -- 4. Elite women -- 5. The lower classes -- 6. Women and religion.

Publisher description: Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most liberated of the ancient world, receiving formal instruction in poetry, music, dance, and physical education. And the most famous of mythic Greek women, Helen of Troy, was originally a Spartan. Written by one of the leading authorities on women in antiquity, Spartan Women seeks to reconstruct the lives and the world of Sparta's women, including how their legal status changed over time and how they held on to their surprising autonomy. In this book, Sarah Pomeroy covers over a thousand years in the lives of Sparta's women from both the elite and lower classes. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, and Pomeroy comprehensively analyzes ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the history of these elusive though much noticed women.

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