War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Evans, John

 
9780415739900: War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041573990X ISBN 13: 9780415739900
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall.

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041573990X
ISBN 13 
9780415739900
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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