Towards a Gender History in Late Antiquity. Women in Eunapius of Sardis

In this article I aim at analysing the gender discourses of the 4th century AD author Eunapius of Sardis. The sources that I used are both his treatises History and Lives of Philosophers and Sophists, which allows a study focused on the political and intellectual fields. I followed a methodology founded on the increasing hermeneutic and heuristic proposals of Gender History applied to Late Antiquity. This period shows research gaps in this field of study that need to be the subject of a heuristic and hermeneutic renewal. Thus, this work could be a initial touchstone of a detailed approach to the mentality of the 4th century AD concerning women and it is expected that it will help open new paths of research in the field.