Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation...
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Author: Lauren Hackworth Petersen
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Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by Petersen, Lauren Hackworth

Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

¥8,851

Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome

¥8,851
Author: Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Lauren Hackworth Petersen
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/01/2012
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780292754348

About the Author
Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in Roman art and archaeology. She is the recipient of many awards, including an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Getty Foundation, and a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.Patricia Salzman-Mitchell is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University, New Jersey. She specializes in Latin poetry, gender studies in Classical literature, film and the Classics and the Classical tradition. She has published two books and several articles on Latin poetry and gender.

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