Prelinaries -- Contents -- 1 From daily life' to demography' -- 2 Ideology and the status of women' in ancient Greece -- 3 Approaching women through myth: vital tool or self-delusion? -- 4 Signifying difference: the myth of Pandora -- 5 The cults of Demeter and Kore -- 6 Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens -- 7 Women's identity and the family in the classical polis -- 8 Some Pythagorean female virtues -- 9 Self-help, self-knowledge: in search of the patient in Hippocratic gynaecology -- 10 Women who suffer from a man's disease: the example of satyriasis and the debate on affections specific to the sexes -- 11 Re-reading (Vestal) virginity -- 12 Male power and legitimacy through women: the domus Augusta under the Julio-Claudians -- 13 Women and elections in Pompeii -- 14 A woman's voice-Laronia's role in Juvenal Satire 2 -- 15 Aemilia Pudentilla: or the wealthy widow's choice -- 16 Female sanctity in the Greek calendar: the Synaxarion of Constantinople -- Select bibliography -- Index.