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Pandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
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1988
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Literary HistoryRoman AntiquityWomen's RightGender TheoryFeminist ScholarshipGender StudiesEnglish-language TranslationFeminist PerspectiveRoman MenFeminist IdentityCultural HistoryLanguage StudiesAncient GreeceFeminist TheoryClassicsSocial SciencesFeminist Inquiry
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.