Roman Women
Author: Eve D'Ambra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 7
ISBN-13: 0521818397
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Dress and the Roman Woman
Author: Kelly Olson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1134121202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.
Roman Woman
Author: Lindsay Allason-Jones
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Roman Britain is portrayed in this detailed story - a woven narrative of a family struggling to come to terms with new customs and with reconciling their cultural differences. Set in busy York, in the late years of the reign of Hadrian, the story follows the life of the heroine Senovara.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Author: Mary Beard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 743
ISBN-13: 1631491253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.
Roman Wives, Roman Widows
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780802849717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Roman Women
Author: John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13:
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Author: Augusto Fraschetti
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780226260945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theater, cultural life, and religion from the first through the fourth centuries. The contributors draw on rare documents in an attempt to reconstruct in detail the lives and accomplishments of these exceptional women, a difficult task considering that the Romans recorded very little about women. They thought it improper for a woman's virtues to be praised outside the home. Moreover, they believed that a feeble intellect, a weakness in character, and a general incompetence prevented a woman from participating in public life. Through this investigation, we encounter a number of idiosyncratic personalities. They include the vestal virgin Claudia; Cornelia, a matron; the passionate Fulvia; a mime known as "Lycoris"; the politician Livia; the martyr and writer Vibia Perpetua; a hostess named Helena Augusta; the intellectual Hypatia; and the saint Melania the Younger. Unlike their silent female counterparts, these women stood out in a culture where it was terribly difficult and odd to do so.
A Week In the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman
Author: Holly Beers
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0830849890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1107032245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Reading Roman Women
Author: Suzanne Dixon
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2001-06-21
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.
