pt. I. Women outside Athens and Rome. -- Case study I: The Mother Goddess in prehistory: debates and perspectives / Lauren Talalay -- Women in ancient Mesopotamia / Amy R. Gansell -- Hidden voices: unveiling women in ancient Egypt / Kasia Szpakowska -- Looking for Minoan and Mycenaean women: paths of feminist scholarship towards the Aegean Bronze Age / Marianna Nikolaïdou -- Women in Homer / Cristiana Franco -- Etruscan women: towards a reappraisal / Vedia Izzet -- pt. II. The Archaic and Classical periods. -- Case study II: Sex and the single girl: the Cologne fragment of Archilochus / Sharon L. James -- Women, city, state: theories, ideologies, and concepts in the Archaic and Classical periods / Madeleine M. Henry and Sharon L. James -- Women and law / Barbara Levick -- Women and medicine / Holt Parker -- Reading the bones: interpreting the skeletal evidence for women's lives in ancient Greece / Maria A. Liston -- Approaches to reading attic vases / Kathryn Topper -- Spartan girls and the Athenian gaze / Jenifer Neils -- Interpreting women in Archaic and Classical Greek sculpture / A.A. Donohue -- Dress and adornment in Archaic and Classical Greece / Mireille M. Lee -- Women and religion in Greece / Eva Stehle -- Women and Roman religion / Lora L. Holland -- Women in Magna Graecia / Gillian Shepherd.

pt. III. Women in a cosmopolitan world: the Hellenistic and late Republican periods. -- Case study III: Hellenistic Tanagra figurines / Sheila Dillon -- Case study IV: Domestic female slaves in Roman comedy / Sharon L. James -- Female patronage in the Greek Hellenistic and Roman Republican periods / Anne Bielman -- Women on Hellenistic grave stelai: reading images and texts / Christina A. Salowey -- Female portraiture in the Hellenistic period / Sheila Dillon -- Women and family in Menander / Cheryl A. Cox -- Gender and space, "public" and "private" / Monika Trümper -- Oikos keeping: women and monarchy in the Macedonian tradition / Elizabeth D. Carney -- The women of Ptolemaic Egypt: the view from papyrology / Maryline Parca -- Jewish women: texts and contexts / Laura S. Lieber -- Women, education, and philosophy / Marguerite Deslauriers -- Perceptions of women's power in the late republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE / T. Corey Brennan -- pt. IV. The beginnings of empire. -- Case study V: Vergil's Dido / Sharon L. James -- Women in Augustan Rome / Judith P. Hallett -- Women in Augustan literature / Alison Keith -- Women on the Bay of Naples / Eve D'Ambra -- Early imperial female portraiture / Elizabeth Bartman -- Portraits, prestige, piety: images of women in Roman Egypt / Christina Riggs -- pt. V. From empire to Christianity. -- Case study VI: Female portraiture in Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn -- Women in imperial Roman literature / Rhiannon Ash -- Female portraiture and female patronage in the High Imperial period / Rachel Meyers -- Women in Roman Britain / Lindsay Allason-Jones -- Public roles for women in the cities of the Latin West / Emily A. Hemelrijk -- Rari exempli femina: female virtues on Roman funerary inscriptions / Werner Riess -- Women in late antique Egypt / Jennifer Sheridan Moss -- Representations of women in late antiquity and early Byzantium / Ioli Kalavrezou -- Becoming Christian / Ross S. Kraemer -- Appendix: Women in late antiquity (apart from Egypt): a bibliography.