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Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt
Women’s Bodies, Society and Domestic Space
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
659 kr
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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period.Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.
Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt
Women’s Bodies, Society and Domestic Space
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
2 204 kr
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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and religious aspects of women's reproduction, using both historical and archaeological sources, and shows how the social status of women and new-born children changed from the Dynastic to the Greco-Roman period.Through a comparative and interdisciplinary study of the historical sources, papyri, artefacts and archaeological evidence, Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt shows how Greek, Roman, Jewish and Near Eastern cultures impacted on the social perception of female puberty, childbirth and menstruation in Greco-Roman Egypt from the 3rd century B.C. to the 3rd century A.D.
Maidenhood in the Greco-Roman World
A Social History through Funerary Materials and Texts
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
2 362 kr
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Maidenhood in the Greco-Roman World offers the first comprehensive social history of maidenhood in the Graeco-Roman world, spanning the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD. Through an unprecedented comparative synthesis of archaeological case studies, epigraphic evidence, iconography, and literary sources, it explores how young women were perceived, commemorated, and socially constructed in death. At its core are forty-two carefully selected burial case studies from Greece, Italy, and Egypt. Rather than attempting an exhaustive catalogue, the book presents contextualised, well-excavated examples, combining analysis of grave goods, skeletal remains, and funerary assemblages with wider regional comparisons. These burials are read alongside funerary art, inscriptions, and ancient medical, legal, and literary texts to reconstruct the social meanings attached to maidenhood.The study argues that funerary contexts do not simply reveal the lives of girls, but the social gaze cast upon them, including expectations surrounding beauty, skills, piety, and marriage. By bringing together material and textual evidence across different regions and periods, the book highlights both shared traditions and local adaptations in commemorating girls who died before marriage.In doing so, it illuminates a crucial yet understudied transitional stage of life and demonstrates the centrality of maidenhood in Graeco-Roman social imagination.