Cantarella, Eva, et. al., Pandora's Daughters: The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

This book uses literary, judicial, and anecdotal sources to help readers distinguish accurate information about women's lives during the classical period.

Deuel, Leo, Testaments of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records, Knopf, 1965.

This book includes a very interesting discussion of the papyrus discoveries in Egypt. Of particular interest is Chapter 8, "Pearls from Rubbish Heaps: Grenfell and Hunt."

Dillon, Matthew, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, Routledge, 2003.

This text offers an examination of the different ways in which girls and women participated in Greek religious life, especially with reference to feminine participation in the cults that existed in this period.

Lardinois, Andre, and Laura McClure, eds., Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society, Princeton University Press, 2001.

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