Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Praeger Series on the Ancient World)

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From their personal lives at home to their roles in the realms of religion, health, economics, governance, war, philosophy, and poetry, this is the story of ancient women in all their aspects. Vivante explores women’s lives in four ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. At the same time as the experiences of women in ancient cultures were undoubtedly very different from those of most women today, a tendency to center of attention too much on negative or restrictive images has until now provided readers with a quite incomplete picture. Taking a look at this important era from a female-oriented viewpoint, Vivante widens the perceptual lens and makes it conceivable to highlight the fundamental empowered aspects of women’s activities with the intention to present them in balance with the quite a lot of limits imposed on their societal participation.

Beginning with powerful images of goddesses and women’s roles in the religious sphere, Vivante details the foundation for women’s activities in all other social realms. At the same time as these four Mediterranean civilizations were distinctive, they also influenced every other through quite a lot of forms of contact―trade, colonization, and war. Both the similarities and the differences permit richer comparisons and promote a deeper understanding of the lives of women in every.

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