ISBN:
9780415115223
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (311 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Politics in Ancient Rome
DDC:
305.4209376
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
8auman delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; WOMEN IN THE CONFLICT OF THE ORDERS; WOMEN IN THE SECOND PUNIC WAR; THE POLITICS OF PROTEST; WOMEN IN GRACCHAN POLITICS; THE POLITICAL STRATEGISTS OF THE LATE REPUBLIC; THE TRIUMVIRAL PERIOD: DIPLOMACY, ORATORY AND LEADERSHIP; THE FOOTHILLS OF THE PRINCIPATE; WOMEN IN THE AUGUSTAN PRINCIPATE; TIBERIUS, LIVIA AND AGRIPPINA; CALIGULA'S SISTERS; MESSALINA, AGRIPPINA AND CLAUDIUS; AGRIPPINA, NERO AND THE DOMUS; IN RETROSPECT; Notes; Select bibliography; General index; Index to sources;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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