ISBN:
90-04-25595-8
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (430 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne supplements. history and archaeology of classical antiquity, volume 360
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum.
Series Statement:
History and archaeology of classical antiquity.
DDC:
305.40936/091732
Keywords:
Women Social conditions.
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Rome Social life and customs.
Abstract:
Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume—which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire—show, women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in urban economies, and a few were prominent public figures, celebrated for their generosity and for their priestly eminence, and commemorated with public statues and grand inscriptions. Drawing on archaeology and epigraphy, on law and art as well as on ancient texts, this multidisciplinary study offers a new and more nuanced view of the gendering of civic life. It asks how far the experience of women of the smaller Italian and provincial cities resembled that of women in the capital, how women were represented in sculptural art as well as in inscriptions, and what kinds of power or influence they exercised in the societies of the Latin West.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Matter /
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Introduction /
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The Role of Women as Municipal Matres /
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Women beyond Rome: Trend-Setters or Dedicated Followers of Fashion? /
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Frauen als Teil der kaiserzeitlichen Gesellschaft: ihr Reflex in Inschriften Roms und der italischen Städte /
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Female Munificence in the Cities of the Latin West /
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The Public Presence of Women in the Cities of Roman North Africa. Two Case Studies: Thamugadi and Cuicul /
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Gender and Cult in the Roman West: Mithras, Isis, Attis /
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Women and Animal Sacrifice in Public Life /
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Women and the Cult of Magna Mater in the Western Provinces /
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Honorific vs. Funerary Statues of Women: Essentially the Same or Fundamentally Different? /
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Portrait Statues of Women on the Island of Delos /
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Dressed Women on the Streets of the Ancient City: What to Wear? /
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Whose Fashion? Men, Women and Roman Culture as Reflected in Dress in the Cities of the Roman North-West /
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Gendering Medical Provision in the Cities of the Roman West /
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Desperate Housewives? The Adaptive Family Economy and Female Participation in the Roman Urban Labour Market /
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Women and Retail in Roman Italy /
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Grain Distribution and Gender in the City of Rome /
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Female Mobility in the Roman West /
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Female Networks in Military Communities in the Roman West: A View from the Vindolanda Tablets /
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Female Travellers in Roman Britain: Vibia Pacata and Julia Lucilla /
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Index /
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