Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-189) and index.
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The logistics of gender from classical philosophy / Grainne McLaughlin -- Matriot games? Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and the forging of family-oriented political values / Judith P. Hallett -- Politics of inclusion/exclusion in Attic Tragedy / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- Exemplary housewife or luxurious slut: cultural representations of women in the Roman economy / Suzanne Dixon -- Matronly patrons in the early Roman Empire: the case of Salvia Postuma / Margaret Woodhull -- Women's influence on revenge in Ancient Greece/ Fiona McHardy -- A woman's influence on a Roman text: Marcia and Seneca / Rebecca Langlands -- Women and the transmission of Libyan culture / Eireann Marshall -- Galla Placidia: conduit of culture? / Mary Harlow -- Gender and cultural identity in Roman Egypt / Jane Rowlandson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book explores how women in antiquity influenced cultural spheres normailly thought of as male.