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

Name: Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus Inventing Private Life
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ISBN: 9780199235728

ISBN-10: 0199235724

ISBN-13: 9780199235728

Edition: 2008

Authors: 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 aseries 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 toconstruct a new definition of who and what constituted Roman public life.

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.056



Introduction



Reading and Writing Gender on the Augustan Palatine



Other Men's Wives: Domesticity and Display in Vitruvius' `De Architectura'



Women, History, and the Law



Domestic Disturbance: Talking about the Triumvirs in the Early Empire



Natural Urges: Marriage, Philosophy, and the Work of the House


Epilogue: Burning Down the House: Nero and the End of Julio-Claudian Rule