Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves

The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome… the first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism – Mary BeardDeeply fascinating … from Pandora to the Lemnian women who slaughtered their husbands for saying they stank, from Solon’s state-controlled brothels to the scabrous writing of Juvenal and the transvestite peculariaties of Spartan marriages … attitudes and anomalies are explored which remain valid paradigms to this day * Observer *Deeply fascinating … from Pandora to the Lemnian women who slaughtered their husbands for saying they stank, from Solon’s state-controlled brothels to the scabrous writing of Juvenal and the transvestite peculariaties of Spartan marriages … attitudes and anomalies are explored which remain valid paradigms to this day * Observer *

Sarah B. Pomeroy was born in New York City and educated at Barnard College and Columbia University. She has lived in England and several other European countries and has taught at a number of universities, including Vassar College and Columbia. Her books include, Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra, Women’s History and Ancient History, Women in the Classical World- Image and Text and Xenophon- Oeconomicus- A Social and Historical Commentary.

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