Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: WOMEN IN MYTH
1. Myth: an introduction
2. Creation myth
3. The Olympian goddesses: virgins and mothers
4. Women in the poems of Home
5. Amazons

PART II: THE ARCHAIC AGE, 750-500 BC
6. Women in an age of transition
7. Women and the poets
8. Women as poets: Sappho
9. Women in stone

PART III: THE CLASSICAL AGE, 500-336 BC
10. Women's bodies
11. Women in Athenian law and society
12. The lives of women in Classical Athens
13. Sparta and Gortyn
14. Women and religion

PART IV: IDEAS ABOUT WOMEN IN THE CLASSICAL AGE
15. Women in drama
16. Women and the philosophers
17. Women in Classical sculpture

POSTSCRIPT
18. The Hellenistic Age



Notes

Bibliography

Quotation acknowledgements

Illustration acknowledgements

Index

ILLUSTRATIONS
Plates 1-26
Plates 27-45

Sue Blundell is a Lecturer for both Birkbeck and Goldsmiths Colleges in the University of London as well as for the Open University. She is the author of The Origins of Civilization in Greek and Roman Thought.