Women and War in Antiquity

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris is a professor of Latin literature at the University Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3. She is the author of Rome, l'Arcadie et la mer des Argonautes: Naissance d'une mythologie des origines en Occident. Alison Keith is a professor of classics, comparative literature, medieval studies, and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic.

Introduction
1. War, Speech, and the Bow Are Not Women's Business
2. Women and War in the Iliad: Rhetorical and Ethical Implications
3. Teichoskopia: Female Figures Looking on Battles
4. Women Arming Men: Armor and Jewelry
5. Woman and War: From the Theban Cycle to Greek Tragedy
6. Women after War in Seneca's Troades: A Reflection on Emotions
7. Love and War: Feminine Models, Epic Roles, and Gender Identity inStatius's Thebaid
8. Elegiac Women and Roman Warfare
9. Warrior Women in Roman Epic
10. War in the Feminine in Ancient Greece
11. To Act, Not Submit: Women's Attitudes in Situations of War in Ancient Greece
12. Women's Wars, Censored Wars? A Few Greek Hypotheses (Eighth to FourthCenturies BCE)
13. The Warrior Queens of Caria (Fifth to Fourth Centuries BCE): Archeology,History, and Historiography
14. Fulvia: The Representation of an Elite Roman Woman Warrior
15. Women and Imperium in Rome: Imperial Perspectives
16. The Feminine Side of War in Claudian's Epics