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Women and the Roman City in the Latin West /
Roman cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. The contributions to this volume - which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire - show, however, that women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Boston : Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
360. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Roman cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. The contributions to this volume - which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire - show, however, that women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in urban economies, and a few were prominent public figures, celebrated for their generosity and for their priestly eminence, and commemorated with public statues and grand inscriptions. Drawing on archaeology and epigraphy, on law and art as well as on ancient texts, this multidisciplinary study offers a view of the gendering of civic life. It asks how far the experience of women of the smaller Italian and provincial cities resembled that of women in the capital, how women were represented in sculptural art as well as in inscriptions, and what kinds of power or influence they exercised in the societies of the Latin West.--adapted from publisher's description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 408 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1299808212 9781299808218 9789004255951 9004255958 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |