Roman Women

Name: Roman Women
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ISBN: 9780521521581

ISBN-10: 0521521580

ISBN-13: 9780521521581

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eve D'Ambra

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This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations - of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late Republic to the high Imperial period, Eve D'Ambra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that recreate how life was lived. She also demonstrates how texts and material objects take part in shaping realities and what they can tell us about the texture of lives and social…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/25/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Maps and Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Gender and Status



Marriage and the Family



Women's Work



Public Life


Glossary


Roman Authors


Select Bibliography


Index