Believing Ancient Women

Feminist Epistemologies for Greece and Rome

By: Megan Elena Bowen (Editor), Mary Hamil Gilbert (Editor), Edith Gwendolyn Nally (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 December 2023

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This volume deploys recent feminist epistemological frameworks to analyse how concepts like knowledge, authority, rationality, objectivity and testimony were constructed in Greece and Rome.

The introduction serves as a field guide to feminist epistemological interpretations of classical sources, and the following sixteen chapters treat a variety of genres and time periods, from Greek poetry, tragedy, philosophy, oratory, historiography and material culture to Roman comedy, epic, oratory, letters, law and their reception. By using an intersectional approach to demonstrate how epistemic systems exclude and pathologise the experiences of ancient women and other oppressed groups, these contributions aid in the recovery of non-dominant narratives and reveal issues of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, religion, age, class, familial status and citizenship in the ancient and modern world. The volume contributes to a more inclusive and equitable study of classical antiquity and builds transhistorical connections capable of exposing similar injustices in our own time.

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The editors and authors have produced an intellectual feast for readers with a lively and thought-provoking volume that is as wide-ranging in its topics as it is in the scholars contributing. From early career scholars to the most-seasoned veterans of the field, this volume shows the continued importance and power of feminist approaches to classical antiquity.

--Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University

This volume, with its strong focus on feminist epistemology together with its wide range of methodologies and classical material, makes a powerful intervention in the elucidation of ancient philosophy and literature, while acting as a showcase for how exploration of the ancient world can contribute to contemporary debates.

--Alison Sharrock, University of Manchester

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