Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World /

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This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history -- gender, memory and identity -- and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rantala, Jussi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 2.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Memory.
Sex > Rome > History.
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects > Rome.
Women > Rome > History.
Rome > Intellectual life.
Festschriften.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Tabula gratulatoria
  • Introduction / Jussi Rantala
  • Public agency of women in the later Roman world / Ville Vuolanto
  • Religious agency and civic identity of women in ancient Ostia / Marja-Leena Hänninen
  • The invisible women of Roman agrarian work and economy / Lena Larsson Loven
  • 'Show them that you are Marcus's daughter': the public role of imperial daughters in second- and third-century CE Rome / Sanna Joska
  • Defining manliness, constructing identities: Alexander the Great mirroring an exemplary man in late Antiquity / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
  • 'At the age of nineteen' (RG1): life, longevity, and the formation of an Augustan past (43-38 BCE) / Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence
  • Conflict and community: Anna of Carthage and Roman identity in Augustan poetry / Jussi Rantala
  • Dress, identity, cultural memory: Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in context / Ria Berg
  • The goddess and the town: memory, feast, and identity between Demeter and Saint Lucia / Marxiano Melotti
  • Varius, multiplex, multiformis - Greek, Roman, Panhellenic: multiple identities of the Hadrianic era and beyond / Arja Karivieri
  • Mental hospitals in pre-modern society: antiquity, Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam / Christian Laes.

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