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Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean

ISBN: 978-0-631-20524-1

August 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

232 pages

Description
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: Ancient Rome, 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.