How did women participate in the different
religious traditions of the ancient world?
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How did religion affect the social construction
of gender?
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How did gender affect the development of
religious beliefs and institutions?
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This course will examine women in antiquity, with a focus on women in
the Roman Empire. We will use religion as lens to direct our
studies, since religion provided one of the most important means by
which women participated in the public, civic arena in antiquity. We
begin with women in the so-called "pagan" traditions in Greece and Rome
and then move to women in early Judaism. We conclude with an extensive
section on women in early Christianity.
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