Roman Women (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization)

D'Ambra, Eve

ISBN 10: 0521521580 / ISBN 13: 9780521521581

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Synopsis:

This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations - of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late Republic to the high Imperial period, Eve D'Ambra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that recreate how life was lived. She also demonstrates how texts and material objects take part in shaping realities and what they can tell us about the texture of lives and social attitudes, if not emotions of women in Roman antiquity.

About the Author: Eve D'Ambra is chair and professor of art at Vassar College. She is the author of Roman Art (Cambridge, 1998).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Roman Women (Cambridge Introduction to Roman...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition.