Part 1 The Archaic period
1 Where it all began: women in Hesiod
2 Aphrodite and Demeter: goddesses in the Homeric Hymns
3 Women divine and mortal in the Homeric epics
4 Women and gender in the melic and lyric poets
Part 2 The Classical period
5 The lived experiences of girls and women
6 Women and property
7 Foreign women
8 Prostitutes
9 Religious life of girls and women
10 Gender performed on the Athenian stage
11 Dorian girls and women
12 Women and the state: Plato and Aristotle
13 Warrior women
14 The female body.