I. Goddesses and Gods
II. Women in the bronze age and Homeric epic
III. The dark age and the archaic period
IV. Women and the city of Athens
V. Private life in classical Athens
VI. Images of women in the literature of classical Athens
VII. Hellenistic women
VIII. The Roman matron of the late republic and early empire
IX. Women of the Roman lower classes
X. The role of women in the religion of the Romans
Epilogue: the elusive women of classical antiquity.