Ancient Stepmothers

Biographical note Readership Reviews

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xii, 288 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Patricia A. Watson, M.A. hons. (Sydney), Ph.D. (Toronto). is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney. Apart from articles related to the current work, she has also published on Ovid, Martial and the Latin poetic language.

Readership

All those interested in the history of the family and women's studies as well as scholars of Classical literature and ancient historians; also sociologists with an interest in stepfamily relationships.

Reviews

'Watson's Ancient Stepmothers is an admirable effort to collect and evaluate the evidence about a family role that has suffered bias from ancient world to our own...a welcome addition to the growing emphasis on family studies in the social history of the ancient world.'
Laura Abrahamsen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1995.
'This fascinating study will undoubtedly spur other researchers in this new and developing field, and it lays out a number of paths they can very profitably follow.'
M.J.G. Gray-Fow, Comptes Rendus.
'... a thorough and very valuable study of the Greek and Roman notion of this universal stereotype.'
Emily A. Hemelrijk, l'Antiquite Classique, 1996.

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9789004257986

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