A Rome of one's own the forgotten women of the Roman Empire

The kingdom. Tarpeia and Hersilia 750 BCE: The traitor and the patriot -- Tanaquil 616 BCE: The queen -- Lucretia and Tullia 510 BCE: The virgin and the whore -- The republic. Oppia 483 BCE: The vestal -- Hispala Faecenia 186 BCE: The informer -- Clodia 60 BCE: The Palatine Medea -- Turia 46 BCE: Th...

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1. Verfasser: Southon, Emma (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Abrams Press 2023
Ausgabe:US edition
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Zusammenfassung:The kingdom. Tarpeia and Hersilia 750 BCE: The traitor and the patriot -- Tanaquil 616 BCE: The queen -- Lucretia and Tullia 510 BCE: The virgin and the whore -- The republic. Oppia 483 BCE: The vestal -- Hispala Faecenia 186 BCE: The informer -- Clodia 60 BCE: The Palatine Medea -- Turia 46 BCE: The survivor -- The empire. Julia Caesar 27 BCE: The princess -- Cartimandua and Boudicca 60 CE: The client and the rebel -- Julia Felix 79 CE: The Pompeii businesswoman -- Sulpicia Lepidina 100 CE: The first lady of the camp -- Julia Balbilla 130 CE: The poet -- Perpetua 203 CE: The Christian martyr -- Julia Maesa and Julia Mamaea 222 CE: Mothers of the whole human race -- Late antiquity. Zenobia 268 CE: The usurper Augusta -- Melania the elder 373 CE: The saint -- Galla Placidia 414 CE: The last Roman -- Epilogue.
"The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of 'the Doing of Important Things,' and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background, or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of women who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry; who lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. Told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, A Rome of One's Own highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world."--
Beschreibung:"Originally published in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia as "A history of the Roman Empire in 21 women" by OneWorld Publications"--Title page verso
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 356-380
Beschreibung:404 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:9781419760181
978-1-4197-6018-1