General Introduction Part One: Mesopotamia Introduction Stephanie Lynn Budin--"Female Sexuality in Mesopotamia" Erica Couto-Ferreira--"Being mothers or acting (like) mothers? Constructing motherhood in ancient Mesopotamia" Claudia Suter--"Images of Queens, High Priestesses, and Other Elite Women in 3rd-Millennium Mesopotamia" Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati--"Women''s Power and Work in Ancient Urkesh" Alhena Gadotti--"Mesopotamian Women''s Cultic Roles in late 3rd - early 2nd millennia bce" Josué J. Justel--"Women, Gender and Law at the Dawn of History: The Evidence of the Cuneiform Sources" Andrew McCarthy--"Businesswomen and their Seals in Early Mesopotamia" Anna-Isabelle Langlois--"The Female Tavern-Keeper in Mesopotamia: Some Aspects of Daily Life" Saana Svärd--"Neo-Assyrian Elite Women" Janet Monge and Page Selinsky--"Patterns of Violence Against Women in the Iron Age Town of Hasanlu, Solduz Valley, Iran" Maria Brosius--"No Reason to Hide - Women in the Neo-Elamite and Persian Periods" Part Two: Egypt Introduction Rosalie David--"Understanding The Lives Of Ancient Egyptian Women: The Contribution Of Physical Anthropology" Marc Orriols-Llonch--"Women''s role in sexual intercourse in ancient Egypt" Erika Feucht--"Motherhood in Pharaonic Egypt" Suzanne Onstine--"Women''s participation in the religious hierarchy of Ancient Egypt" Jan Picton-- "Living and Working in a New Kingdom ''harem town''" Deborah Sweeney--"Women at Deir el-Medîna" Katharina Zinn--"Women in Amarna: legendary royals, forgotten elite, unknown populace?" Joyce Tyldesley--"The Role of Egypt''s Dynastic Queens" Jacke Phillips--"Women in Ancient Nubia" Part Three: Hittites Introduction Trevor Bryce--"The Role and Status of Women in Hittite Society" Gary Beckman--"Birth and Motherhood among the Hittites" Billie Jean Collins--"Women in Hittite Religion" Part Four: Cyprus Introduction Kirsi O. Lorentz--"Real bones, real women, real lives: Bioarchaeology of women in ancient Cyprus" Stephanie Lynn Budin--"Maternity in Ancient Cyprus" Jennifer M. Webb--"Women at home and in the community in prehistoric Bronze Age Cyprus" Louise Steel--"The social and economic roles played by the women of Alashiya" Nancy Serwint--"Women and the Art of Ancient Cyprus" Joanna Smith--"Women in the Cities of Cyprus: Rulers and Urban Dwellers from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period" Part Five: The Levant and Carthage Introduction Patrick M. Michel--"Functions and personalities of "Syrian" Priestesses in the Bronze Age: Priestesses at Mari, Emar, and Ugarit " Marguerite Yon--"Women''s Daily Lives in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (2nd millennium bce)" Jennie Ebeling--"Women''s Daily Life in Bronze Age Canaan" Kevin McGeough--"''Will Womankind Now Be Hunting?'': The Work and Economic Lives of Women at Late Bronze Age Ugarit" Carol Meyers--"Women''s Daily Life (Iron Age Israel)" Assaf Yasur-Landau--"Women In Philistia: The Archaeological Record Of The Iron Age" Carol Meyers--"Women''s Religious Life (Iron Age Israel)" Peggy Day--""Until I Come and Take You Away to a Land Like Your Own:" A Gendered Look at Siege Warfare and Mass Deportation" Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Meritxell Ferrer Martin--"Women''s Ritual Practice in the Western Phoenician and Punic World" Part Six: The Aegean, Bronze Age and Historical Introduction John Prag--"From the Caves of the Wind to Mycenae Rich in Gold: the faces of Minoan and Mycenaean women" John Younger--"Minoan Women" Stephanie Lynn Budin--"Maternity in the Bronze Age Aegean" Cécile Boëlle-Weber--" I-je-re-ja, ka-ra-wi-po-ro and others. Women in Mycenaean Religion" Cynthia Shelmerdine--"Women in the Mycenaean Economy" Brendan Burke--"Beyond Penelope: Women and the role of Textiles in Early Greece" Sherry Fox--"The Bioarchaeology of Women in Greek Antiquity" James Whitley--"Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: A View from the Grave" Yurie Hong--"Mothering in Ancient Athens: Class, Identity, and Experience" Matthew P. J. Dillon--""Chrysis The Hiereia Having Placed A Lighted Torch Near The Garlands Then Fell Asleep (Thucydides Iv.

133.2)." Priestesses Serving The Gods And Goddesses In Classical Greece" Allison Glazebrook--"Prostitutes, Women, and Gender in Ancient Greece" Edward E. Cohen--"The Athenian Businesswoman" Gillian Ramsey--"Hellenistic Women and the Law: Agency, Identity and Community" Part Seven: Etruria and the Italian Archipelago Introduction Fulvia Lo Schiavo and Matteo Milletti--"The Nuragic women: Facts and hypotheses on Bronze Age Sardinian women" Judith Swaddling--"Seianti: portrait of an Etruscan woman" Larissa Bonfante-- "Motherhood in Etruria" Jean MacIntosh Turfa-- "Health and medicine for Etruscan women" Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis-- "Etruscan marriage ( matrimonio etrusco)" Gilda Bartoloni and Federica Pitzalis-- "The wife of the prince (la donna del principe )" Ingrid Edlund-Berry-- "Etruscan goddesses & worshipers: the place of women in the context of urban and non-urban sanctuaries" Margarita Gleba-- "Women and textile production in pre-Roman Italy" Jacopo Tabolli and M. DeLucia Brolli-- "Faliscan women" Camilla Norman-- "Daunian Women: Costume And Actions Commemorated In Stone" Enrico Benelli-- "Etruria: female slaves and slave-owners" Part Eight: Rome Lena Larsson Lovén-- "Roman motherhood" Emily Hemelrijk--"Women''s daily life in the Roman West" Fanny Dolansky--"Strained relations, gender differences, and domestic ideals: the significance of two Roman family festivals" Hilary Wills Becker-- "Roman women in the urban economy: occupations, social connections, and gendered exclusions" Linnea Åshede--"A demanding supply: prostitution in the Roman World" Elizabeth Greene--"Identities And Social Roles Of Women In Military Settlements In The Roman West" Anna McCullough-- "Female Gladiators in the Roman Empire" Part Nine: At the Edges Introduction Adrienne Mayor--"Warrior Women: The archaeology of Amazons" Lourdes Prados Torreira-- "Women in Iberian Culture: 6th-1st centuries b.c." Miranda Aldhouse-Green--"Viragos and Virgins: Women in the Celtic World" Nancy Wicker-- "Women In The Roman Iron Age (A.D.

0-400) In Scandinavia" Part Ten: Coda Kathy L. Gaca-- "Continuities in Rape and Tyranny in Martial Societies from Antiquity Onwards".