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Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

Name: Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West
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Contributors:

Emily Hemelrijk

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Ancient, Women's Studies

Book Topic:

Rome

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Release Date:

2015-09-30

ISBN 13:

9780190251888

Weight:

2.3 lbs

Size:

9.30 x 6.10 x 1.50 inches

Pages:

650

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Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban society in the Roman Principate. Drawing on epigraphy and archaeology, and to a lesser extent on legal and literary texts, women's civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses and patronesses or 'mothers' of cities and associations (collegia and the Augustales) are brought to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which was dominated by the imperial family, wealthy women in the local Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity to leave their mark on the city. Their motives to spend their money, time and energy for the benefit of their cities and the rewards their contributions earned them take centre stage. Assessing the meaning and significance of their contributions for themselves and their families and for the cities that enjoyed them, the book presents a new and detailed view of the role of women and gender in Roman urban life.

About the Author
Emily A. Hemelrijk is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on Roman women. Her books include Matrona Docta: Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna and the edited volumes Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives, with Luuk de Ligt and H.W. Singor, and Women and the Roman City in the Latin West, with Greg Woolf.

Hidden Lives, Public Personae: Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

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