Women in late antiquity : pagan and Christian life-styles / Gillian Clark.

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy ; with a new preface by the author.

Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life / Kristina Milnor.

Sowing the body : psychoanalysis and ancient representations of women / Page duBois.

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Women in late antiquity : pagan and Christian life-styles / Gillian Clark.

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy ; with a new preface by the author.

Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life / Kristina Milnor.

Sowing the body : psychoanalysis and ancient representations of women / Page duBois.