Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life /
The age of Augustus has long been recognised as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on ‘traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. This book takes up a series of te...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The age of Augustus has long been recognised as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on ‘traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. This book takes up a series of texts and their contexts in order to explore this paradox. Through an examination of authors such as Vitruvius, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Seneca the Elder, and L. Junius Moderatus Columella, the book argues that female domesticity was both a principle and a problem for early imperial writers, as they sought to construct a new definition of who and what constituted public life in the early Roman empire. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191712883 0191712884 0199235724 9780199235728 |