This book covers Julia's life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a sympathetic, courageous, intelligent, and important woman.
This book contains a fresh re-assessment of the one of the most significant figures of her time and questions:
- Was Julia more powerful than earlier empresses? - Did she really promote despotism? - How seriously is her...
This book covers Julia's life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the ...
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.
Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.
Studying the abundant historical evidence available, this biography studies each stage of Julia's life in remarkable detail:
her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become part of a complex and unstable family structure
her youth - set against the...
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.
Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.
Studying the abundant historical evidence available, this biography studies each stage of Julia s life in remarkable detail:
her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become part of a complex and unstable family structure
her youth - set against the brilliant social and cultural...
This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.
Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daug...
Examining the life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue and intelligence, this book presents a study of the woman who represented the ideal of the Roman matrona. It examines her attributes: daughter of Scipio Africanus, wife of an aristocrat, and mother of the Gracchi; and how these enabled her to move in high echelons of society.
Examining the life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue and intelligence, this book presents a study of the woman who represented the ideal of ...
Modern conventional wisdom knows Olympias as a pitiless and savage woman, practitioner of barbaric Dionysian rites compelled by jealousy and ruthless ambition to the murder of her rivals in order to secure her son's succession to the throne of Macedon. In this way she is credited for Alexander the Great's unprecedented achievements-yet the scale of her son's epic story has obscured her own. Such critical accounts of Olympias' actions have made unforgiving and often unfounded judgments of her motivations. This myth however originates from later Hellenic texts, to which her strength and...
Modern conventional wisdom knows Olympias as a pitiless and savage woman, practitioner of barbaric Dionysian rites compelled by jealousy and ruthless ...
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias.
Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, Elizabeth Carney penetrates myth, fiction and sexual politics and conducts a close examination of Olympias through historical and literary sources, and brings her to life as she places the figure in the context of her own ancient, brutal political world.
Individual examinations look at:
the role of Greek religion in...
The definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, this is the first modern biography of Olympias...
Studying references and writings in over 900 personal letters - an unparalleled source, this book presents a rounded and intriguing account of the three women who, until now, have only survived as secondary figures to Cicero.
In a field where little is really known about Ciceros family, Susan Treggiari creates a history for these figures who, through history, have not had voices of their own, and a vivid impression of the everyday life upper-class Roman women in Italy during the heyday of Roman power.
Artfully assembling a rounded picture of their personalities and experiences,...
Studying references and writings in over 900 personal letters - an unparalleled source, this book presents a rounded and intriguing account of the thr...
Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) during the late first and early second centuries CE. In the 368 letters included in his ten published books of epistles, Pliny mentions over 30 women by name, addresses letters to seven, and refers to well over 40 anonymous women. Many of the references are brief comments in letters whose topics are the activities of Pliny's male acquaintances. Nonetheless his letters inform us about the roles of women in Roman families, marriages, and households,...
Pliny's letters offer a significant source of information about the lives of Roman women (predominantly, though not exclusively, upper-class women) du...
