Motherhood in Antiquity

1. Introduction
Dana Cooper, Claire Phelan

Part I. Motherhood and Religion

2. “I Arose a Mother in Israel”: Motherhood as a Liberating Power in the Biblical Stories of Miriam and Deborah
Dvora Lederman-Daniely

3. Models of Devotion?: The Rhetoric of Ambivalence and Admonition in Late Antique and Early Christian Discourse on Women and Motherhood
June-Ann Greeley

4. Motherhood in the Ancient Indian Buddhist World: A Soteriological Path
Pascale Engelmajer

Part II. Motherhood and Politics

5. Mother Knows Best: Motherhood and Succession in the Seleucid Realm
Alex McAuley

6. Mamaea’s Little Man: Alexander Severus, His Mother, and the Germanic War
Karl E. Baughman

7. Jingû: Narratives of Motherhood and Imperial Rule in Early Japan
Kendra Strand

Part III. Motherhood and Identity

8. Earthly and Divine Mothers in Ancient Egypt
Emily Teeter

9. Bronze Age Beginnings: The Conceptualization of Motherhood in Prehistoric Europe
Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

10. From Cybele to Artemis: Motherhood and Great Mothers of Ancient Anatolia
Nilgün Anadolu-Okur

11. Motherhood, Personhood, Identity, and Place-Making in Ancient Mesoamerica
Kathryn M. Hudson, John S. Henderson

Keywords: History, Ancient History, Classical Studies, Social History, Religion and Gender, Gender Studies