Washington University in St. Louis Washington University Open Scholarship All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) 1-1-2012 Participating in Public: Female Patronage and Economic Prominence at Hellenistic Priene Ashley Eckhardt Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd Recommended Citation Eckhardt, Ashley, "Participating in Public: Female Patronage and Economic Prominence at Hellenistic Priene" (2012). All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). 735. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd/735 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Department of Art History and Archaeology Participating in Public: Female Patronage and Economic Prominence at Hellenistic Priene by Ashley Anne Eckhardt A thesis presented to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts May 2012 Saint Louis, Missouri Acknowledgements This project would not have been successful without the support I received from a number of different sources. I am pleased to have the opportunity to acknowledge and thank them here. Generous financial support came through a summer research fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, which enabled me to conduct preliminary research into the topic of women in antiquity. Through this research, I discovered the exceptional case of Phile of Priene, who inspired this investigation into the women of Hellenistic Priene.