Sarah B Pomeroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 980870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah B Pomeroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah B |
| FAMILY NAME | Pomeroy |
| SIGNATURE | POMEROY S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 286 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
American Journal of Ancient History
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 8 articles: John G. Griffith, 'A Note on the First Eisphora at Athens', G.V. Sumner, 'The Pompeii in Their Families', Allen M. Ward, 'Caesar and the Pirates II: The Elusive M. Iunius Iuncus and the Year 75/4', Chr. Habicht, 'Athenisches Ehrendekret vom Jahre des Koroibos (306/5) für einen königlichen Offizier', Robin Seager, 'Amicitia in Tacitus and Juvenal', Sarah B. Pomeroy,…
Pythagorean Women
Women and Culture in Herodotus' Histories
In 30 b.c. Cleopatra vii, the last the of the Ptolemies to rule Egypt, chose to take her own life rather than march as a captive in the triumphal procession of the Roman general Octavian. Many aspects of women’s daily lives in Egypt were not altered by the Roman conquest, nor are they different nowadays. However, there are ways in which women are affected by changes in political systems. 1 This paper will discuss those changes that Roman rule pro…
Valerie French (1941–2011)
Valerie French (1941–2011) Judith P. Hallett and Sarah B. Pomeroy Valerie French died at her home in Washington, DC, on December 8, 2011. Associate Professor of History Emerita at American University, she was born on January 16, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio, and grew up in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. During her undergraduate years at Cornell University, from which she received a BA degree in chemistry in 1964, she began the study of ancient h…
Murder of Regilla
Works Cited
Dedication
Illustrations
Subject Social and Cultural History Gender and Sexuality Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Becoming A Wife
And I was thinking that Sparta among cities of few citizens proved to be the most powerful and famous, and I wondered in what way this had come about. When, however, I thought about the Spartans’ way of life, I no longer wondered. I admired Lycurgus, their lawgiver, whose laws they were fortunate in obeying, and I think him extremely wise. He did not imitate other cities, but thinking the opposite of most, he made his country outstandingly fortun…
Appendix
Abbreviations
The Lower Classes
Lower-class inhabitants of Laconia and Messenia far outnumbered their Spartan rulers, but we know very little about them aside from their relationship to the Spartans. For Greek history in general, far more is known about the upper class. Furthermore, even among the upper class, there is less evidence for women than for men. Like women elsewhere in Greece, and like upper-class Spartan women, their status and reputation probably depended largely b…
Women And Religion
This chapter is devoted to the religious experiences of Spartan women. It is not an attempt to cover every aspect of each cult or divinity mentioned, nor to report all the textual and archaeological evidence unless a connection with women’s activities can be detected. The evidence is often obscure and fragmentary. In many cases, the sole source of information is a single brief definition in a Byzantine dictionary. Furthermore, the reader must be …
The Creation Of Mothers
Spartans were the only Greek mothers who were famous in antiquity qua mothers, and who served as paradigms in later periods of history. Xenophon and Plutarch are our main authorities for the exaltation of motherhood. As welltraveled, cosmopolitan reporters, they declare that nowhere else in the Greek world did the state lavish such attention on women.
Education
In the modern western world, schooling is mandatory and the curriculum prescribed by state authorities who verify its effectiveness by examinations of students, teachers, and textbooks. In antiquity, parents alone were usually responsible for their children’s upbringing. At Athens there was a little outside supervision: a boy was scrutinized at successive stages of life by his father’s tribe. In contrast, there was no outside surveillance of girl…
Elite Women
More specific information is available about royal women than about any other group. It is clear, however, that a historian must not generalize from information about the female kin of kings to women of lesser social status. For example, because of concern about the legitimacy of the succession, only royal women are named in tales of adultery, but the ancient sources often do not distinguish between royal and upper-class women. Many Spartiates ha…
Conclusion
Subject Social and Cultural History Gender and Sexuality Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Spartan Women
Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most liberated of the ancient world, receiving formal instruction in poetry, music, dance, and physical education. And the most famous of mythic Greek women, Helen of Troy, was o…
Xenophon
The Limits of Participation
Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Title Pages
Defining the Family
The family in classical and Hellenistic Greece had a far greater range of functions and manifestations than it has in the modern Western world. Consequently, the definition of the Greek family is not only broad, but protean, including in some cases people who are not related to one another by blood, marriage, or adoption, or sometimes even people who never shared a household. Because the greatest range of definitions, the most clearly articulated…
Families in Ptolemaic Egypt
In this chapter, as in the rest of the book, the final chronological limit is Hellenistic: from the death of Alexander the Great to the end of the reign of Cleopatra VII. I will not be examining documents from Roman Egypt. I will, however, make allusions to demographic patterns that have emerged from the study of papyri recording the Roman census, inasmuch as the demographic data from the Ptolemaic period is sparse. Such allusions will be highly …
Abbreviations
Xenophon, Oeconomicus
The Oeconomicus is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of an oikos ('family', 'household', or 'estate') and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. It is one of the richest primary sources for the social, economic, and intellectual history of classical Athens. It contains valuable information and raises questions of perennial interest on marriage; the innate moral, physical, and menta…
Goddesses, whores, wives and slaves
Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
With this volume Sarah Pomeroy builds on the groundwork she laid in Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (Oxford, 1994) and provides the first comprehensive study of the Greek family. Knowledge of the family and kin groups is fundamental to understanding the development of the political and legal framework of the polis, a community if Oikoi (`families' or `households') rather than of individual citizens. Pomeroy offers a highl…
Spartan Women
Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in many ways among the most liberated of the ancient world, receiving formal instruction in poetry, music, dance, and physical education. And the most famous of mythic Greek women, Helen of Troy, was o…
Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
The Family in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
No abstract available for this article
Andromaque
Les vers 433-439 du Chant VI de l'Iliade ne doivent pas être considérés comme une interpolation, mais comme un témoignage du prestige que pouvait conserver la femme dans la société homérique
The Woman and the Lyre
(Charities for Greek Women*)
When Medea is pretending to be an ordinary Greek housewife, she points out that a woman needs a dowry, in order to get a husband1). Among the respectable classes throughout the Greek world, all girls were expected to marry, and fathers usually provided their daughters with the requisite dowry 2). Girls who succeeded in marrying without any dowry were exceptional. Men who claimed that compassion had inspired them to take a dowerless bride counted …
Women in Antiquity
An extensive annotated bibliography of materials about the historical women of antiquity from the earliest records to 476 C.E., it covers ancient Greece, the Minoans, Etruscans, Hellenistic kingdoms, Rome, and the provinces of the Roman Empire. Biographies of individual women constitute a considerable portion of the works listed. Ancient works are included, listed both in the original language and in translation. Modern works are covered as well …
Optics and the Line in Plato's Republic
Socrates, in the Republic (509 d–511 e), uses the symbol of a divided line to illustrate the distinction between the Visible and Intelligible Worlds, and between the kinds of perception appropriate to each. This paper will present a new hypothesis: that the proportions of the line are derived from optical theory. The construction of the Divided Line is described as follows: Socrates asks his interlocutors to represent the Visible and Intelligible…
Optics and the Line in Plato's Republic
Socrates, in the Republic (509 d–511 e), uses the symbol of a divided line to illustrate the distinction between the Visible and Intelligible Worlds, and between the kinds of perception appropriate to each. This paper will present a new hypothesis: that the proportions of the line are derived from optical theory. The construction of the Divided Line is described as follows: Socrates asks his interlocutors to represent the Visible and Intelligible…
Making History
Feminism in Book V of Plato's Republic
Andromaque
Les vers 433-439 du Chant VI de l'Iliade ne doivent pas être considérés comme une interpolation, mais comme un témoignage du prestige que pouvait conserver la femme dans la société homérique
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves
Women in Antiquity
An extensive annotated bibliography of materials about the historical women of antiquity from the earliest records to 476 C.E., it covers ancient Greece, the Minoans, Etruscans, Hellenistic kingdoms, Rome, and the provinces of the Roman Empire. Biographies of individual women constitute a considerable portion of the works listed. Ancient works are included, listed both in the original language and in translation. Modern works are covered as well …
(Charities for Greek Women*)
When Medea is pretending to be an ordinary Greek housewife, she points out that a woman needs a dowry, in order to get a husband1). Among the respectable classes throughout the Greek world, all girls were expected to marry, and fathers usually provided their daughters with the requisite dowry 2). Girls who succeeded in marrying without any dowry were exceptional. Men who claimed that compassion had inspired them to take a dowerless bride counted …
Before Color Prejudice
Women in Hellenistic Egypt
The Family in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
No abstract available for this article
Women in Hellenistic Egypt
Women in Hellenistic Egypt
The Reign of the Phallus
Pandora's Daughters
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
The Woman and the Lyre
Women's History and Ancient History
Women's History & Ancient History
Goddesses, whores, wives and slaves
Xenophon, Oeconomicus
The Oeconomicus is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of an oikos ('family', 'household', or 'estate') and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. It is one of the richest primary sources for the social, economic, and intellectual history of classical Athens. It contains valuable information and raises questions of perennial interest on marriage; the innate moral, physical, and menta…
Xenophon, Oeconomicus
Xenophon's life and the date of composition of the Oeconomicus language, style, structure and dramatic date Xenophon and Socrates the family in classical Greece the domestic economy the Oeconomicus after Xenophon the history of the text
Women in the Classical World
n First published in 1994; first issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 1995.\n
Women's History and Ancient History
Xenophon: Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary
Prisoner of History
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