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Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life

Name: Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life
ISBN: 9781429430838

Kristina Milnor

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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.

Categorías:

History - Ancient History

Año:

2006

Editorial:

Oxford University Press

Idioma:

english

Páginas:

384

ISBN 10:

1429430834