Sarah B. Pomeroy

[3][2]: 179  Her PhD dissertation studied the first published lease of an olive grove from Karanis in Egypt.

[3] Pomeroy moved to The University of Texas at Austin in order to take up her first job in 1961, where she worked until 1962.

[2]: 179  She also began working as a faculty member in Classics at the Graduate School at City University of New York in 1978, and later was also appointed to the Program in History.

[6] Its lasting influence led to its reissue in 1994, and it has been described by an editor at Random House as "one of the five paradigm-changing books of the 20th century.

"[3] Her other works include Xenophon, Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary (1994), Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities (1998), Spartan Women (2002), and, with Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, the textbooks Ancient Greece: a Political, Social, and Cultural History (4th edition, 2017) and A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture (3rd edition, 2011).

Front cover of Sarah B. Pomeroy's Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves. Women in Classical Antiquity (1975)