CHAPTER 10 Women, Art, Power, and Work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Negotiating Silence, Finding Voices, and Articulating Agency: Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland 1
5. PART I PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL IDENTITIES
6. CHAPTER 1 Pompeian Women and the Making of a Material History 11
7. CHAPTER 2 Women’s Work? Investors, Money-Handlers, and Dealers 29
8. CHAPTER 3 From Household to Workshop: Women, Weaving, and the Peculium 51
9. CHAPTER 4 Buying Power: The Public Priestesses of Pompeii 67
10. CHAPTER 5 Real Estate for Profit: Julia Felix’s Property and the Forum Frieze 85
11. PART II WOMEN ON DISPLAY
12. CHAPTER 6 Contextualizing the Funerary and Honorific Portrait Statues of Women in Pompeii 109
13. CHAPTER 7 Portraits and Patrons: The Women of the Villa of the Mysteries in Their Social Context 133
14. CHAPTER 8 “What’s in a Name?” Mapping Women’s Names from the Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum 151
15. CHAPTER 9 The Public and Private Lives of Pompeian Prostitutes 177
16. PART III REPRESENTING WOMEN
17. CHAPTER 10 Women, Art, Power, and Work in the House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii 199
18. CHAPTER 11 The House of the Triclinium (V.2.4) at Pompeii: The House of a “Courtesan”? 217
19. CHAPTER 12 Sex on Display in Pompeii’s Tavern VII.7.18 229
20. CHAPTER 13 Drawings of Women at Pompeii 247
21. EPILOGUE The Complexity of Silence 275
22. Bibliography 283
23. Contributors 319
24. Illustration Credits 322
25. Index 326