Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome - Hardcover
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Believing Ancient Women: Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome
This volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyze how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome. The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat a variety of genres and time periods, from Greek poetry,...
Megan Elena Bowen received a PhD in Classics from the University of Virginia in 2018. She specialises in Roman literature and culture and has published on prayer and sexual violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Classical Journal, 2020). She is especially interested in issues related to gender and power in ancient texts and their reception.
Mary Hamil Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of Classics at...
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