Women and the Polis: Public Honorific Inscriptions for Women in the Greek Cities from the Late Classical to the Roman Period

by Aleksander Wolicki, Przemyslaw Lucas Siekierka, Krystyna Stębnicka

This work is the first complete corpus of Greek inscriptions issued by the city institutions in honour of their co-citizenesses or female foreigners, with the exclusion of Hellenistic queens and women belonging to families of the Roman magistrates. The corpus lists 1131 women fulfilling such criteria. The Greek texts are accompanied by lemmata, English translations and relevant commentaries. Basing on the collected evidence, the authors analyse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110640619
• ISBN13: 9783110640618
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 1259 Pages
• Weight: 5.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.1" x 7.2" x 9.8"