Author Description

The result of twenty years research, this is an eye-opening introduction to the study of gender in the classical world. • Addresses both masculinity and femininity in Greek and Roman cultures using a wide range of sources • Written in an easy-to-read style with summaries at the start and end of each chapter to aid understanding • Discusses a variety of materials, including poetry, drama, myth, religion, philosophy, law, historiography, satire, letters, art, educational texts, medical and technological treatises • Offers readers critical tools with which to analyse their own cultures to see how gender works, showing in action how studying the past illuminates one’s own society • Organized by topic and type of evidence, rather than chronologically, to highlight similarities and differences between Greek and Roman cultures • Structured to work easily with sourcebooks on Greek and Roman gender