Mothering and motherhood in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell.

Date:
2012
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Publication/Creation

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

Physical description

xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Introduction: The public and private faces of mothering and motherhood in classical antiquity / Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell -- Maternity and miasma: dress and the transition from Parthenos to Gunē / Mireille M. Lee -- Motherhood as Teleia: rituals of incorporation at the Kourotrophic shrine / Angela Taraskiewicz -- Collaboration and conflict: discourses of maternity in Hippocratic gynecology and embryology / Yurie Hong -- Citizen-mothers on the tragic stage / Angeliki Tzanetou -- Working girls: mother-daughter bonds among ancient prostitutes / Anise K. Strong -- Tenderness or taboo: images of breast-feeding mothers in Greek and Latin literature / Patricia Salzman-Mitchell -- Mater patriae: Cleopatra and Roman ideas of motherhood / Prudence Jones -- Mater amoris: mothers and lovers in Augustan Rome / Genevieve Liveley -- Per hunc utero quem linquis nostro: mothers in Flavian epic / Antony Augoustakis -- Imperial mothers and monuments in Rome / Margaret L. Woodhull.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780292729902
  • 0292729901
  • 9780292739239
  • 0292739230