Representing Agrippina Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire

Name: Representing Agrippina Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9780195181418

ISBN-10: 0195181417

ISBN-13: 9780195181418

Edition: 2005

Authors: Judith Ginsburg, Eric Gruen

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Agrippina the Younger, wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of his successor Nero, wielded power and authority at the center of the Roman empire in ways unmatched by almost any other woman in Roman history. Such, at least, is the portrait of Agrippina delivered by our sources and perpetuated in modern scholarship. In this posthumous work, Judith Ginsburg provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Unlike previous treatments, she seeks neither to condemn nor to rehabilitate Agrippina. Nor does she endeavor to exhume the "real Agrippina" from the embellished or fabricated portraits found among the ancients. Ginsburg trains her focus on the…

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List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.18" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Judith Ginsburg, 1944-2002, was Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Eric S. Gruen is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley



Introduction




Agrippina in the literary tradition



Agrippina : the early years



The marriage to Claudius



Agrippina and Claudius



Agrippina and Nero



The murder of Agrippina



Visualizing Agrippina



Agrippina on the imperial and provincial coinage



Agrippina in sculpture



Agrippina on Cameos



Agrippina's assimilation to Demeter



Agrippina and the power of rhetorical stereotypes



Saeva noverca



Dux femina



Sexual transgressor


Chart of the Julio-Claudians