Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

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  • Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome Book Detail

  • Author : Lauren Hackworth Petersen
  • Release Date : 2013-04-01
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9780292754348
  • File Size : 71,71 MB
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Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lauren Hackworth Petersen PDF Summary

Book Description: Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. Mothers could wield enormous influence as the reproductive bodies of society and, in many cases, of culture. Yet motherhood and acts of mothering have received relatively little focused and sustained attention by modern scholars, who have concentrated almost exclusively on analyzing depictions of ancient women more generally. In this volume, experts from across the humanities present a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, to reveal the multilayered dimensions of motherhood in both Greece and Rome and to confront the fact that not all mothers and acts of mothering can be easily categorized. The authors consider a variety of mothers—from the mythical to the real, from empress to prostitute, and from citizen to foreigner—to expose both the mundane and the ideologically charged lives of mothers in the Classical world. Some essays focus on motherhood as a largely private (emotional, intimate) experience, while others explore the ramifications of public, oftentimes politicized, displays of motherhood. This state-of-the art look at mothers and mothering in the ancient world also takes on a contemporary relevance as the authors join current debates on motherhood and suggest links between the lives of ancient mothers and the diverse, often conflicting roles of women in modern Western society.

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Motherhood in Antiquity

Motherhood in Antiquity

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This edited collection examines concepts and realities of motherhood in the ancient world. The collection uses essays on the Roman Empire, Mesoamerica, the Phil