Brill's Companion to Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74317-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 600 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Considering war from a female perspective, diverse case studies from the Ancient Near East to the Roman World show the many faces of women’s involvement in war and campaigning and try to answer the question of why ancient Greek and Roman authors tend to object to women participating in military activities. It combines studies on literary and material sources and examines “famous” cases of women at war such as the myth of the Amazons, the portrayal of Artemisia of Halicarnassus, and the military role of Macedonian royal women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Carney, Elizabeth D.

Müller, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth D. Carney is Professor Emerita at Clemson University. Her research has focused on the role of women in Macedonian monarchy. She has published monographs on women and monarchy (2000), Olympias (2006), Arsinoë (2013), Eurydice (2019).

Sabine Müller has studied History and Art History and is Professor of Ancient History at Marburg University. Her research interest focuses on ancient Persia, Macedonia, and Macedonian royal women. She has published monographs on Arsinoe II (2009), Perdiccas II (2017), Alexander III (2014 and 2019), and the Argeads (2016 and 2025).

Contributors are: Cinzia Bearzot, Mary T. Boatwright, Lee L. Brice, Elizabeth D. Carney, Elinor Cosgrave, Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Kathy L. Gaca, Elizabeth M. Greene, Johannes Heinrichs, Rachel Kousser, Franca Landucci, Kathryn A. Langenfeld, Uroš Matic, Sarah Melville, Sabine Müller, Olga Palagia, Walter Penrose Jr., Meghan Poplacean, Frances Pownall, Elinor Pyy, Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer, Caryn Reeder, Tanja Susanne Scheer, Fabio Tanja, Georgia Tzouvala, Lewis Webb, Kathryn Welch, Sergey A. Yatsenko.