The material sides of marriage. Women and domestic economies in antiquity

Contents: I Wool-Working Women: from Tools to Symbols - Federica Pitzalis, Filare e tessere in Etruria. Il contributo femminile all'economia domestica tra VIII e VII secolo a.C.. Anita Crispino - Massimo Cultraro, Il dolio e il fuso. Per una ricostruzione del ruolo e della sfera di azione della donna nella Sicilia orientale alle soglie della colonizzazione greca. Francesco Meo, Alcune considerazioni sui ruoli dei generi nella produzione tessile a Herakleia di Lucania. Nikolas Dimakis, Women's Share in Status Display. Some Observations on Female Burials. Deborah Lyons, Female Goods in the Ancient Greek Domestic and Symbolic Economies. Renee Gondek, Women's 'Paraphernalia' in Marital Processions on Athenian Vases.

II Dowry and Inheritance: Legislating Women's Property - Brenda Griffith-Williams, "She was treated abominably, gentlemen". Women in the Athenian Inheritance System. Paola Tosoni, Dalla schiava alla donna libera. Ruoli economici della donna ateniese in età classica. Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart, The Principle of Not Lessening the Rights of the Wife in the Pacta Dotalia. Alessandra Valentini, From Mother to Daughter Aemilia Tertia's Legacy and Ornamenta. Anna Guadagnucci, Il ruolo economico delle amiche di Plinio. Marianna Thoma, Women's Role in Domestic Economy of Roman Egypt. The Contribution of the Gnomon of Idios Logos (BGU V 1210). Katerina Nikolaou, The Contribution of Women to Byzantine Family Properties. Hagiographical, Epigraphical and Legal Evidence.

III Household Management and Female Goods - Maciej Daszuta, The Spartan Wife. The Real Keeper of Lakedaemonian Oikos? Dimitrios Mantzilas, Female Domestic Financial Managers Turia, Murdia, and Hortensia. Ria Berg, Dominae apothecarum. Gendering Storage Patterns in Roman Houses. Polly Lohmann, Tracing the Activities of Female Household Members within the Roman domus? A Methodological Discussion of Artefact Distribution in Pompeii. Marja-Leena Hänninen, Livia's Economic Activity.

IV Beyond the Household: Women in Business - Vincenzina Castiglione Morelli, Sulle tracce di una imprenditoria al femminile a Pompei e nel Vesuviano. Rosaria Ciardiello, Donne imprenditrici a Pompei. Eumachia e Giulia Felice. Maricí Martins Magalhães, Le testimonianze epigrafiche della partecipazione femminile alla vita pubblica e alle attività della domus - tra Surrentum, Stabiae eNuceria. Irene Chrestou, Innkeepers, Ship-owners, Prostitutes. Three 'Female' Business Activities. Paolo de Vingo, Powerful Women in Byzantine Liguria (554-568). An Analysis of Late Antique Aristocracies based on Historical, Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources