Sarah B. Pomeroy

Sarah B. Pomeroy (born March 13, 1938 in New York City ) is an American classical philologist and ancient historian .

Pomeroy, who in 1978 received his doctorate, was Distinguished Professor of Classics at Hunter College of the City University of New York , then at Brooklyn College , at Vassar College and at Columbia University . In 2004 she retired . She is best known in the English-speaking world for her publications on the cultural history of antiquity , especially on the history of women. She is also known as a translator and commentator (for example on Xenophon's Oekonomikos ). Her most important work is Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves. Woman in Classical Antiquity (1975, since then more than ten new editions). With the book, it was the onset of the pioneer in the 1970s and the Ancient Studies reaching gender studies in the US and worldwide. In 2014 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts

• Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves. Women in Classical Antiquity. Schocken Books, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-8052-0530-6 (Several editions; in German: Women's life in classical antiquity (= Kröner's pocket edition. Vol. 461). Translated from English by Norbert F. Mattheis. Kröner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-520-46101-3 ).
• Women in Hellenistic Egypt. From Alexander to Cleopatra. Schocken Books, Ney York NY 1984, ISBN 0-8052-3911-1 .
• Xenophon, Oeconomicus. A Social and Historical Commentary. With a new English Translation. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-814082-7 .
• Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece. Representations and Realities. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-814392-3 .
• Spartan Women. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2002, ISBN 0-19-513067-7 .
• The Murder of Regilla. A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) / London 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02583-7 .

literature

• Jennifer Scanlon, Shaaron Cosner: American Women Historians, 1700s – 1990s. A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1996, ISBN 0-313-29664-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sarah B. Pomeroy in the catalog of the German National Library