"Nuptiae Iure Civili Congruae": Apuleius's Story of Cupid and Psyche and the Roman Law of Marriage
Social historians, despite showing great interest in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, have tended to ignore the novel’s embedded tale of Cupid and Psyche on the grounds that it is purely imaginary.
The Periclean Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C.
I will then examine a variety of reason why Pericles may have chosen to implement this measure and why it might have been accepted by the existing citizenship body, as well as considering the various objectives that the law may have intended to achieve.
Women in Egypt – how the status of women in Egypt changed during the Ptolemaic Period
This dissertation will thus attempt to shed light on the question of how and if the status of women changed in Ptolemaic Egypt during the Hellenistic period. The women in question will be both of the native Egyptian population and of the Graeco-Macedonian upper class who migrated toEgypt along with the early Ptolemaic dynasty (and who continued tomigrate to Egypt throughout the Hellenistic period).
The censure of powerful women : roman monarchy and gender anxiety
Roman literature is full of disparaging commentary on women. Pemales in general are depicted as greedy, susceptible to luxuria, at the mercy of their uncontrollable passions, deceitful, jealous and cruel; a woman in proximity to power will attempt to corrupt that power or usurp it for herself and her own personal desires.
Birth prevention before the era of modern contraception
It is generally agreed that the Gynaecology of Soranus is the most rational medical treatise on birth control in the classical literature.
Julio-Claudian empresses
The social framework in which Romans lived has been reexamined in recent years. One important focus, the study of Roman women and family, has emerged.1 Indeed, social historians argue that the roles generally played by wives and mothers are crucial keys to our understanding their value in Roman society.
The female body in Latin love poetry
My study examines the female body
Sexual Morality in Ancient Egyptian Literature
Ancient Egyptian literature often incorporates sexual ethics that are not fully explained or comprehensively explored within the works. The ancient Egyptian literary corpus assumes a cultural context with which ancient Egyptian readers were familiar. Notably, the pervasive religious and cultural practices of ancient Egypt were inseparable from common customs, including sexual, reproductive, and erotic customs.
On the Bravery of Women: The Ancient Amazon and Her Modern Counterparts
The vision of women armed and marching into battle against male opponents appeared to exert an intriguing influence on the culture that conceived such a myth; in turn, the Amazons continued to be popular through Roman times…
Motherhood and Childbirth in Pharaonic Egypt
Barrenness was dreaded. If a woman could not conceive, pleas were made to the deities connected with
fertility and childbirth, such as Bes, Taweret, and above all, Hathor.