The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE)

Lucinda Dirven, Ph.D, is professor by special appointment in Ancient religions at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She works on religions of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Roman Near East. Martijn Icks, Ph.D. is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on Roman emperors and their representation, on the reception of Classical culture and on character assassination as a cross-cultural phenomenon. Sofie Remijsen, Ph.D is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on various aspects of social and cultural history in the Mediterranean, including sport and festivals. Currently she is leading a project on Lived Time in Late-Antique Egypt. Contributors are: Josine H. Blok, Lucinda Dirven, Anique Hamelink, Martijn Icks, Lien Foubert, Sanne Klaver, Onno M. van Nijf, Sofie Remijsen, Evelien J.J. Roels, Janric van Rookhuijzen, Emila Salerno, Daniëlle Slootjes, Rolf Strootman, Marlena Whiting.

List of Figures



Introduction

 Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen



Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk



1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World

 Rolf Strootman



2 Empresses Taking Charge

The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources

 Martijn Icks



3 Zenobia versus Mawia

A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World

 Lucinda Dirven



4 Image and Reality

The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora

 Daniëlle Slootjes



5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis

A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription

 Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen



6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere

Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome

 Onno M. van Nijf



7 Women on Time

Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt

 Sofie Remijsen



8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae

Bacchus’ Women in Rome

 Emilia Salerno



9 Discourses of a Changing Society

Women’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War

 Lien Foubert



10 Present in Public Lettering

The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor

 Evelien J.J. Roels



11 Publicly Luxurious

Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain

 Anique Hamelink



12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress

The Women of Dura-Europos

 Sanne Klaver



13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia

 Marlena Whiting