Women in Ancient Greece

Bonnie MacLachlan is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her published volumes include The Age of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry (1993) and Virginity Revisited: The Autonomy of the Unpossessed Body, co-edited with Judith Fletcher (2007).

The author provides a stylishly written and academically concise overview of the topic… including much needed information on how one should approach such a broad range of source material on the lives of ancient Greek women … MacLachlan's translations work well and are reader-friendly. … The selection of materials is also admirable.

• Introduction The Archaic Period 1. Where it All Began: Women in Hesiod 2. Aphrodite and Demeter: Goddesses in the Homeric Hymns 3. Women Divine and Mortal in the Homeric Epics 4. Women and Gender in the Melic and Lyric Poets The Classical Period 5. The Lived Experiences of Girls and Women 6. Women and Property 7. Foreign Women 8. Prostitutes 9. Girls and Women and Religion 10. Gender Performed on the Athenian Stage 11. Dorian Girls and Women 12. Women and the State in Plato and Aristotle 13. Warrior Women 14. The Female Body The Post-Classical Period 15. Women in the Hellenistic Era Select Bibliography Index of Ancient Authors and Works General Index