The School of Humanities at the University of Reading, in cooperation with the British School at Rome, offers a one-year MA degree in The City of Rome to be...
I am helping a friend to construct a comparative course on women's labor in antiquity and today. Wondering if anyone has good suggestions for a cheap edited...
My personal-favorite is Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.,...
Harriet Imrey
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May 11, 2006 11:08 pm
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Greetings, I don't know if this covers our time period but it might so am passing it along. Best, SallyW...
Hello-- Spurred on by a recent request from Lisa Gilbert, I figured out (finally!) how to get my very old Wheelock & feminism/anti-racism talk off one computer...
Fogel, Jerise
fogel@...
May 12, 2006 1:15 pm
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Here's the text--the attachment was blocked on my machine (and possibly on the list?), so I thought this would be safer. Thanks again, and sorry for the length...
Fogel, Jerise
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May 12, 2006 1:23 pm
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For some references to women related to the Classical world: _____ From: Anahita-l@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Anahita-l@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Harriet...
My Outlook programme is refusing to cope with references, so if another black message came through please ignore it. Anyway, I don't have any specific...
With apologies for any cross-listing--ES Hi, all, We are working on approval for a short-term replacement hire, who would teach three lower-division Latin...
Thought some might find this interesting...... CALL FOR PAPERS ... "Literary Odysseys" Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference: February 23 and 24,...
Dear Diotima (Anahita): The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of: The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia:...
Hi all -- I'm a newbie and was frankly intrigued by this group and its focus on women in ancient cultures. I, myself, am Jewish and am doing research for my...
Hi Amy, are you aware of the Asherah group? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Asherah/ ~Caroline. ... I'm a newbie and was frankly intrigued by this group and its...
I am currently a grad student working on my master's, and am looking for a suitable program after completion. Does anyone know of a program in either History...
... Hi Amy I'm impressed by the gap between what I can see about former lives and what opinions are published by experts. When I see that some people had...
Paula Johanson
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Jun 15, 2006 9:11 pm
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If you're setting a novel in Second Temple Judaism, you might want to check out E.P. Sanders, "Judaism: Practice and Belief, 63 BCE - 66 CE (1992). It's a...
Harriet Imrey
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Jun 16, 2006 12:30 am
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Greetings, I thought some folks might be interested in this fascinating sounding book. Best, SallyW ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hello, Fyi. This might be of interest to some here. Regards, N. ... The Persian 'Mar Nameh': The Zoroastrian 'Book of the Snake' Omens and Calendar by Payam...
Dear Diotima (Anahita): The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of: The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin,...
Diotima members will, I hope, be interested to learn that my book on Hypatia of Alexandria has finally found a publisher. It will be issued by Prometheus Press...
Michael Deakin
michael.deakin@...
Aug 26, 2006 1:05 am
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I thorougly enjoyed reading the book "Hypatia of Alexandria" by Maria Dzielska (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1995). She's a truly-interesting...
Harriet Imrey
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Aug 26, 2006 10:39 am
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... Hypatia of Alexandria has finally found a publisher. ... I eagerly look forward to the publication of this book. Keep me posted and thank you....
Does anyone have a ready bibliography on women in Mesopotamia, especially the Naditu title and *recent* articles about ritual prostitution? Thanks Suzanne...
Marti Nissinen has written about the matter of so called ritual prositution. See also the book by Bahrani, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: (the subtitle is...
chrisathena@...
Sep 11, 2006 3:02 am
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You might check the bibliography in Gwendolyn Leick, Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (Routledge, 1994). Could be tough to find any recent...
Harriet Imrey
himrey@...
Sep 11, 2006 3:03 am
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and see the contributions in: Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world / Christopher A Faraone; Laura McClure 2006 x, 360 p. ; 23 cm. Madison, Wis. :...
cejo@...
Sep 11, 2006 9:43 am
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Marti Nissinen has written about the matter of ritual prositution. See also the book by Bahrani, Zainab Bahrani, Women of Babylon: (the subtitle is something...
chrisathena@...
Sep 11, 2006 12:33 pm
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here knew how to pronounce the name 'Sosipatra' - she was a philosophical teacher and 'psychic' from the 4th cent CE. I'm...
