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This study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their intelligence, initiative and courage.
The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in addition to the original text and an English translation - an examination of both the content and form of De Mulieribus, particularly as a catalogue of women. The times, methods, and purposes of the anonymous author are also investigated. Commentary-essays on the individual women then follow. A wide variety of sources are utilized in order to sketch the fullest possible portrait of each of these lively women.
This book, the very first study of De Mulieribus, is a useful introduction to a remarkable treatise.
The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in addition to the original text and an English translation - an examination of both the content and form of De Mulieribus, particularly as a catalogue of women. The times, methods, and purposes of the anonymous author are also investigated. Commentary-essays on the individual women then follow. A wide variety of sources are utilized in order to sketch the fullest possible portrait of each of these lively women.
This book, the very first study of De Mulieribus, is a useful introduction to a remarkable treatise.
Price: $189.00
Pages: 252
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
01 October 1996
ISBN: 9789004106659
Format: Other
'Deborah Gera has brought to our attention a fascinating and neglected text consisting of brief notices of fourteen women…'
Susan Deacy, The Classical Review, 2000.
Susan Deacy, The Classical Review, 2000.
Deborah Levine Gera, D.Phil. (1987) in Classics, University of Oxford, is a Lecturer in Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Style, Genre, and Literary Technique, (Oxford University Press, 1993).