Women and Society in the Roman World

'Hemelrijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has produced a remarkably informative and useful work ... what makes the book particularly valuable to scholars as well as students is the separate downloadable PDF (available on the publisher's website) of the original Greek and Latin texts of all the inscriptions, edited in accordance with modern epigraphical conventions. Anyone interested in the ancient world will learn much from this excellent work ... Highly recommended.' M. J. Johnson, Choice Magazine

'There is a great deal of pleasure and a wealth of information to be derived from Women and Society in the Roman World ... Hemelrijk's carefully curated and annotated collection of inscriptions fill a longstanding lacuna. Her sourcebook places front and centre the integral role of epigraphy as a rich reservoir of socio-historical and cultural detail about women extending beyond the strictly delimited stratum of elite and imperial households into all sectors of the ancient - and, in this case, Roman - world.' Peter Keegan, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'... immensely useful for the study of Christian origins, for by illuminating ancient Roman women's lives it sheds greater light on the world in which participants in early Christ cults lived. Many thanks to Emily Hemelrijk for producing such an informative and much-needed collection.' Alicia J. Batten, Review of Biblical Literature

EMILY A. HEMELRIJK is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on Roman women and gender. Her books include Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman lite from Cornelia to Julia Domna (1999/2004), Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West (2015) and Women and the Roman City in the Latin West (2013, edited with Greg Woolf).

Introduction; 1. Family Life; 2. Legal Status, Citizenship and Ethnicity; 3. Occupations; 4. Social Relations, Travel and Migration; 5. Religion; 6. Public Life; 7. Imperial Women