Julietta Steinhauer gives a working paper on 'Women, migration and the sacred. The evidence from the sanctuary of the Syrian gods on Delos (166-88 BCE)'

Demographic statistics from Greek cemeteries reveal that up to half of the migrant population in the Hellenistic period was female1. Yet the only comprehensive studies of the migration of individuals in antiquity are of male adults. In fact, the current communis opinio seems to assume that women, due to the dangers of mobility and ‘social cageing’ were much more constrained in their mobility than male individuals. This, while being partly true, has dissuaded scholars from examining more closely the material recording female migrants. In this article I propose reassessing the evidence by conducting a case study on the migrant experience of women on Delos during the second period of the Athenian occupation (166-88 BCE).