Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus: inventing private life
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1. Verfasser: Milnor, Kristina (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford [England] Oxford University Press 2005
Schriftenreihe:Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and indexes
Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine -- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Women, history, and the law -- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire -- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house -- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule
In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way of understanding the nature of political life. The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on 'traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters
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ISBN:0191515647
0199280827
9780191515644
9780199280827

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