It breathed on the embers of a fire that had been preserved for millennia but was losing vigour under the weight of traditional assumptions about the lives of the people behind the words and artifacts. And asking fresh questions invigorated our readings of the evidence. Suddenly we were invited to interrogate the texts, inscriptions and material culture surviving from the Classical world in new ways. This shift in attention was launched by the publication of Sarah Pomeroy’s Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity in 1975. In the study of the ancient world, we have all benefited in recent years from the focus on women and gender interaction in the Mediterranean.
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