Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (Women of the Ancient World) - Hardcover

Book 4 of 6: Women of the Ancient World

Levick, Barbara

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9780415331432: Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (Women of the Ancient World)
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ISBN 10: 0415331439 ISBN 13: 9780415331432
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This book covers Julia’s life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a sympathetic, courageous, intelligent, and important woman.

This book contains a fresh re-assessment of the one of the most significant figures of her time and questions:

• Was Julia more powerful than earlier empresses?
• Did she really promote despotism?
• How seriously is her literary circle to be taken?

As part of a dynasty which used force and violence to preserve its rule, she was distrusted by its subjects; as a Syrian, she was the object of prejudice; as a woman with power, she was resented. On the other hand, Domna was the centre of a literary circle considered highly significant by nineteenth-century admirers.

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Barbara Levick

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415331439
ISBN 13 
9780415331432
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
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