Women & Weasels: Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome 9780226039961, 9780226044743, 022603996X

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with m

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Women & Weasels: Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
9780226039961, 9780226044743, 022603996X

If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with m

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Pierre Brulé's brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, incl

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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greec

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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greec

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Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts––stories of mortal women's couplings with gods, rituals like

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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic i

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Parting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms,Magic in

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This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted con

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Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roma

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This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic

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