Women and War in Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1762-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 598 g

Women in ancient Greece and Rome played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed.

The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex but hitherto unexplored relationship between women and war in ancient Greece and Rome. They reveal that women played a much more active role in battle than previously assumed, embodying martial virtues in both real and mythological combat.

The essays in the collection, taken from the first meeting of the European Research Network on Gender Studies in Antiquity, approach the topic from philological, historical, and material culture perspectives. The contributors examine discussions of women and war in works that span the ancient canon, from Homer’s epics and the major tragedies in Greece to Seneca’s stoic writings in first-century Rome. They consider a vast panorama of scenes in which women are portrayed as spectators, critics, victims, causes, and beneficiaries of war.

This deft volume, which ultimately challenges the conventional scholarly opposition of standards of masculinity and femininity, will appeal to scholars and students of the classical world, European warfare, and gender studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline

Keith, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. War, Speech, and the Bow Are Not Women's Business
2. Women and War in the Iliad: Rhetorical and Ethical Implications
3. Teichoskopia: Female Figures Looking on Battles
4. Women Arming Men: Armor and Jewelry
5. Woman and War: From the Theban Cycle to Greek Tragedy
6. Women after War in Seneca's Troades: A Reflection on Emotions
7. Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity inStatius's Thebaid
8. Elegiac Women and Roman Warfare
9. Warrior Women in Roman Epic
10. War in the Feminine in Ancient Greece
11. To Act, Not Submit: Women's Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece
12. Women's Wars, Censored Wars? A Few Greek Hypotheses (Eighth to FourthCenturies BCE)
13. The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archeology,History, and Historiography
14. Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Woman Warrior
15. Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial Perspectives
16. The Feminine Side of War in Claudian's Epics

Über Autor(innen)

Keith, Alison
Alison Keith is a professor of classics, comparative literature, medieval studies, and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic.

Fabre-Serris, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris is a professor of Latin literature at the University Charles de Gaulle–Lille 3. She is the author of Rome, l’Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes: Naissance d’une mythologie des origines en Occident.

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris is a professor of Latin literature at the University Charles de Gaulle–Lille 3. She is the author of Rome, l’Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes: Naissance d’une mythologie des origines en Occident. Alison Keith is a professor of classics, comparative literature, medieval studies, and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic.