...Material Culture: The Archaeology of Female Monastic Houses (London: Routledge, 1994). See also Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996); Gillian Cloke, This Female Man of God: Women and Spiritual...

...Jerome, Chrysostom, and Augustine," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 5 (Fall 1989): 25^*6; Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996); Ross Kraemer, "The Conversion of Women to Ascetic Forms of Christianity,"...

...and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) 153; Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press, 1996); Elizabeth A. Clark, "The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist...

...(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). For works which compare pagan and Christian ideas, see Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996); Aline Rouselle, Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity,...

...Womanly Influence: An Aspect of the Christianization of the Roman Aristocracy, "JRS82 (1992): 150 -64; Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., 1996). theories about the role of women as "conductors of Christianity" within aristocratic...

...exposi5. For discussion of ironic interest in the first-person narrative persona in Greek romance, see K. COOPER, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 1996. pp. 32ff. On related issues, see S. BARTSCH, Decoding the Ancient...

...Influence: an Aspect of the Christianization of the Roman Aristocracy, JRS 82, 1992, 150-164. DIES., The Virgin and the Bride. Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, Cambridge, Mass./London 1996. CORCORAN, S. -DELAINE, J., The Unit Measurement of Marble in Diocletian's Prices Edict, IRA 7, 1994,...

...On Desire and the Body in Antiquity, trans. Felicia Pheasant (London, Basil Blackwell, 1988); Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996); Deborah Sawyer, Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries...

...and of the University of Notre Dame. All translations are my own unless otherwise identified. 1. Kate Cooper, The Virgin and The Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 19. postulate a woman author.2 But 'more women' is only part...

...Greece and Rome, ed. Amy Richlin (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 112-30. 25. Kate Cooper, The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1996), 55, her emphasis. 26. Kate Cooper, "Apostles, Ascetic...