Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in Roman art and archaeology. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University. She specializes in Latin poetry, gender studies in Classical literature, film and the Classics, and the Classical tradition.

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. (Times Literary Supplement)

• 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 Gunē (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

Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in Roman art and archaeology. Patricia Salzman-Mitchell is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University. She specializes in Latin poetry, gender studies in Classical literature, film and the Classics, and the Classical tradition.

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. (Times Literary Supplement)

• 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 Gunē (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