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Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus

Inventing Private Life

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Paperback, 384 blz. | Engels
| e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9780199235728
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The age of Augustus has long been recognized 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. Kristina Milnor 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 Columella, she 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 Roman public life.

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ISBN13:9780199235728
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:384

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        Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus