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Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life /

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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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Main Author: Milnor, Kristina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
Subjects:
Women > Rome > Social conditions.
Women > History > To 500.
Sex role > Rome.
Households > Rome.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Femmes > Rome > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Rôle selon le sexe > Rome.
Ménages (Statistique) > Rome.
Rome > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-14 (Auguste)
Households.
Manners and customs.
Sex role.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Rome (Empire)
To 500
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine
  • 2. Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' de Architectura
  • 3. Women, history, and the law
  • 4. A domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early empire
  • 5. Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house
  • Epilogue. Burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julian-Claudian rule.