Woman and the Origin of the State: Greece and Rome

FAIN: FB-13162-77

Ruby R. Leavitt
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York (New York, NY 10007-1044)

To discover the inter-relationship of women's changing status and the processes leading to state formation in the ancient Graeco- Roman world. To pinpoint the phenomena resulting in the transformation of the relationships between men and women as the Greek and Roman civilization evolved, from the more or less egalitarian relationships in the preceding Neolithic societies.