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Women in ancient Rome :

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Women in ancient Rome :

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a sourcebook /

Bonnie MacLachlan

ix, 222 pages ;

24 cm

Bloomsbury sources in ancient history

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction -- Abbreviations for works cited -- Part 1: Rome's Beginnings: -- Women and the legendary past -- Women and the early kings -- Tarquins -- Etruscan women -- Part 2: Early And Middle Republic: -- Early laws and women: the Twelve Tables -- Courageous women of the Early Republic -- Women and religious life -- Gender tensions -- Punic Wars -- Women and property -- Women of the upper and lower classes -- Women in Roman comedy -- Part 3: Late Republic: -- Women and powerful men -- Some remarkable Roman women of the Late Republic -- Weddings -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Agricultural workers -- Part 4: Julio-Claudian Period: -- Augustan marriage legislation -- Women of the imperial households -- Latin elegiac poets -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Housekeeper of the villa -- Religion and magic -- Part 5: Later Empire: -- Women of the imperial households -- Women throughout the empire -- Wealthy women -- Lower-class women -- Female body -- Adultery and prostitution -- Religion -- General bibliography -- Index of ancient authors and texts -- General index

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"This sourcebook includes a selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Etruscan period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the study of Roman women's lives. Literary sources comprise works by Livy, Catullus, Ovid, Juvenal and many others."--Publisher's description

Women-- Rome-- Social conditions

Women-- Rome-- Social conditions, Sources

Rome, Civilization

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MacLachlan, Bonnie

20150511122009.0

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