Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important source of interdisciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. .
About the Author
Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She is author of Projecting the Past: AncientRome, Cinema and History and The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, and is now working on her next publication Caesar: A Life in Western Culture.
Features
* Adds to explosion of interest in issues of gender, the body, and history. * Investigates the centrality of gender distinctions to ancient societies. * Complements the study of women in antiquity.