Publisher's Synopsis
Contents: 1 Sublime poetry or feminine fiddling? (Mathilde Skoie); 2 Penthesileia (Ulrika Stahre); 3 The twofold view of women (Gunhild Viden); 4 'IN PUBLICUM PROCURRENDI' (Jorunn Okland); 5 Conflicting descriptions of women's religious activity in mid-republican Rome (Marja-Leena Hanninen); 6 Female property and power in imperial Rome (Paivi Setala); 7 Lanam fecit (Lena Larsson Loven); 8 Etruscan women (Marjatta Nielsen); 9 Euripides, Bakkhai and maenadism (Synnove des Bouvrie); 10 Parthenia (Leena Viitaniemi); 11 Cybele and Aphrodite (Britt-Marie Nasstrom); 12 Sex-indicating grave gifts in the Athenian Iron Age (Agneta Stromberg)."
