Ambiguo malanno

the role and status of women in Greek and Roman antiquity

About this book

Expanded and updated for this English-language translation, this book offers the first history of women in ancient Greece and Rome to be written from a legal perspective. Cantarella demonstrates how literary, anecdotal. and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.

Subjects

  • civilisation gréco-romaine
  • civilization, classical
  • classical civilization
  • femmes
  • femmes - grèce - histoire
  • femmes - rome - histoire
  • frau
  • geschichte
  • geschichte 800 v. chr.-500
  • grèce
  • greece
  • griekse oudheid
  • histoire
  • history
  • rome
  • romeinse oudheid
  • social conditions
  • sociale situatie
  • vrouwen
  • women
  • women, greece
  • women, rome