The Ancient World Online: Gender and women in the Ancient Mediterranean. Iconographies and Literatures

Pedro David Conesa Navarro
Rosa María Gualda Bernal
José Javier Martínez García
(Coords.)

ISBN: 978-84-946637-9-6
DL: MU 142-2019

482 pages

CEPOAT Publications

Published 4-2-2019

Content:

• • • Prologue
    • Presentation. Pedro D. Conesa Navarro, Rosa Gualda Bernal, José J. Martínez García

Gender and femininities

• • The role of women on the court of early Sassanids. Kataryna Maksymiuk
  • “Woman” and “nature” in ancient Greek thought. Aida Míguez Barciela
  • Women, gender and ancient history: A new story from other stories. Rosa María Cíd López
  • Motherhood as an instrument of dynastic propaganda: the case of Iulia Domna. Pedro David Conesa Navarro

powerful women

• • Matriarchy, matrilineality and fratriarchy in the Ancient Near East: the example of the kingdom of Arraphe. Joshua J. Justel Vicente
  • Female power in myth, competition for the wife. Elena Duce Pastor
  • Nihil muliebre praeter corpus: the manifestations of Fulvia’s power over Clodius, Lucius Antony and Mark Antony. Federica Caputo
  • Gosvinta and power: from queen to tyrant. José Ángel Castillo Lozano and José Antonio Molina Gómez

Goddesses and rituals

• • The midwife and the Crone: the professional role of women in the birth rituals of central Anatolia in Hittite times. Laura Puértolas Rubio
  • Regarding the mother goddesses in the ancient Mediterranean: the cases of the Bona Dea and the goddess Cupra. Federica Gatto
  • Rediscovering Diana: cult and archetype in Feminist Wicca.” Aura Fernández Tabernilla
  • An introduction to Gerontius’s Vita Melaniae Iunioris: methodological issues. Oihana Carrasson Torrontegui
  • Women and the religion of Hispania (3rd century BC – 1st century AD). An approach to “invisible” religiosity from literary sources. Rosalia Hernandez Garcia

literary images

• • Women in ancient Egyptian literature. Decorum, reality and education. Antonio Pérez Largacha
  • Women in the Phoenician-Punic world: from classical sources to the present. Lorena Marín Muñoz and Aurora Rivera Hernández
  • Different aspects of female affection in the Odyssey. Susana Reboreda Morillo
  • Women and textile activity in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Laura Rodríguez Peinado and Ana Cabrera Lafuente

Iconographic versions

• Royal women and foreign women: analysis of iconographic and literary sources. Alessia Leone, Annalisa Valente and Daniela Galeano
• Bendis ethnic symbol or goddess of female fertility. Maria Deoudi
• Women and weapons in Coimbra del Barranco Ancho (Jumilla, Murcia). Rosa María Gualda Bernal
• Image and status of women in the mosaics of ancient Lusitania. Jorge Tomas García
• Lanifica. The feminine ideal into the grave. Textile tools in Roman
  burial practice: social inferences and ideological meaning of a funerary
  gesture. Results from the research in Gallia Narbonensis. Cecilia Rossi
• Forms of representation and methods of transmission of the female role in the museum concept of contemporary societies. Giuseppina Torella

Summary:

The book presented brings together a series of investigations that deal with women in Antiquity in the Mediterranean area, from multiple approaches and perspectives. We not only find studies from a purely historical or literary perspective, but also from the archaeological, iconographic, as well as legal level. The title of the same, Gender and women in the Ancient Mediterranean. Iconographies and Literatures aims to combine precisely the meaning that moves this project. Not only address gender and women’s studies from a classical perspective, but also offer the reader a broader perspective. Likewise, just as Pomeroy did with her monograph, this volume brings together works that not only deal with important women in the History of Antiquity, but also those of humble origins and slaves who did not have the same luck. This fact, in our opinion ambitious, has allowed us to have a broader and richer vision of what women were like in the Ancient World. To date, the works that have dealt with this topic have been characterized by having a linear discourse focusing on the historical field. Rarely do we find monographs that offer us a broad vision, bringing together different research disciplines. Precisely this aspect has been one of the determining factors that has motivated us to coordinate and publish a book of such characteristics. With the desire to provide the scientific community and the general public with a series of works that deal with different aspects of literature, iconography, archaeology, history and law, with women within the field of Antiquity as fundamental axes.