Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and indexes

Women : model for possession by Greek daemons / Ruth Padel-- Exit Atossa : images of women in Greek historiography on Persia / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Women and Witchcraft in ancient Assyria / Sue Rollin -- Influential women / Mary R. Lefkowitz -- God's wife of Amun in the 18th dynasty in Egypt / Gay Robins -- Women and housing in classical Greece : the archaeological evidence / Susan Walker -- Women on Athenian vases : problems of interpretation / Dyfri Williams -- Bound to bleed : Artemis and Greek women / Helen King -- Hittite birth rituals / Jackie Pringle -- Celtic women in the early Middle Ages / Wendy Davies -- In search of Byzantine women : three avenues of approach / Judith Herrin -- Bridewealth and dowry in Nuzi / Katarzyna Grosz -- Infanticide in Hellenistic Greece / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- Women and wealth / Riet Van Bremen -- Goddesses, women and Jezebel / Peter R. Ackroyd -- Naditu women of Sippar / Ulla Jeyes -- Role of Jewish women in the religion, ritual and cult of Graeco -Roman Palestine / Léonie J. Archer -- Women in early Syrian Christianity / Susan Ashbrook Harvey