Skip to Content

Sponsors

No results

Keywords

No results

Types

No results

Search Results

Events

No results
Search events using: keywords, sponsors, locations or event type
When / Where
All occurrences of this event have passed.
This listing is displayed for historical purposes.

Presented By: Classical Studies

Who cooked Aristotle’s dinner? Women and the ancient (Greek) economy

Gerald F. Else Lecture in the Humanities Presented by Claire Taylor

Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta. Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta.
Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta.
Where are the women in the study of ancient economies?
Their relative invisibility can only be partially explained by the surviving sources given that the last 50 years have seen a great deal of work on women and gender in other fields of ancient history. Routinely in accounts of ancient economies women’s experience is either ignored or viewed in limited terms and economic actors are conceptualized as being male by default. This talk argues that through the employment of a feminist theoretical framework, we can suggest new ways to consider multiple aspects of ancient economies.

Claire Taylor is John W. & Jeanne M. Rowe Chair and Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Poverty, Wealth and Well-Being: Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens (2017) and co-editor (with Kostas Vlassopoulos) of Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015) and (with J.A. Baird) Ancient Graffiti in Context (2011).
Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta. Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta.
Woman cooking watched by a girl, 500-475 BCE, Boeotian terracotta.

Explore Similar Events

  •  Loading Similar Events...

Back to Main Content