Covering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presence and activities of ancient women in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims.

List of Figures Introduction  Lucinda Dirven, Martijn Icks and Sofie Remijsen Complete List of Publications of Emily A. Hemelrijk 1 Warrior Queens of the Hellenistic World  Rolf Strootman 2 Empresses Taking Charge The Powerful Women of the Severan House in the Literary Sources  Martijn Icks 3 Zenobia versus Mawia A Note on Warrior Queens and Female Power in the Arab World  Lucinda Dirven 4 Image and Reality The Public and Persuasive Power of the Empress Theodora  Daniëlle Slootjes 5 Priestesses in the Sacred Space of the Acropolis A Close Reading of the Hekatompedon Inscription  Josine H. Blok and Janric van Rookhuijzen 6 Bringing Women into the Agonistic Sphere Sport, Women and Festivals in the Greek World under Rome  Onno M. van Nijf 7 Women on Time Gendered Temporalities in Greco-Roman Egypt  Sofie Remijsen 8 Ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae Bacchus’ Women in Rome  Emilia Salerno 9 Discourses of a Changing Society Women’s (Im)mobility in Times of Civil War  Lien Foubert 10 Present in Public Lettering The Epigraphic Dossier of Licinnia Flavilla at Oinoanda (IGR III 500) and the Phenomenon of Honorific Text Monuments in Imperial Asia Minor  Evelien J.J. Roels 11 Publicly Luxurious Banqueting Women on Tombstones in Roman Britain  Anique Hamelink 12 Beautiful Names and Impeccable Dress The Women of Dura-Europos  Sanne Klaver 13 Titles and Rank of Female Donors in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Palaestina and Arabia  Marlena Whiting