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" Women in ancient Rome : "
Bonnie MacLachlan
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BL
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665441
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MacLachlan, Bonnie
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Women in ancient Rome : : a sourcebook /\ Bonnie MacLachlan
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Bloomsbury sources in ancient history
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ix, 222 pages ;; 24 cm
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9781441164216
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: 1441164219
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: 1441177493
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9781441142429
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9781441153852
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Abbreviations for works cited -- Part 1: Rome's Beginnings: -- Women and the legendary past -- Women and the early kings -- Tarquins -- Etruscan women -- Part 2: Early And Middle Republic: -- Early laws and women: the Twelve Tables -- Courageous women of the Early Republic -- Women and religious life -- Gender tensions -- Punic Wars -- Women and property -- Women of the upper and lower classes -- Women in Roman comedy -- Part 3: Late Republic: -- Women and powerful men -- Some remarkable Roman women of the Late Republic -- Weddings -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Agricultural workers -- Part 4: Julio-Claudian Period: -- Augustan marriage legislation -- Women of the imperial households -- Latin elegiac poets -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Housekeeper of the villa -- Religion and magic -- Part 5: Later Empire: -- Women of the imperial households -- Women throughout the empire -- Wealthy women -- Lower-class women -- Female body -- Adultery and prostitution -- Religion -- General bibliography -- Index of ancient authors and texts -- General index
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"This sourcebook includes a selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Etruscan period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the study of Roman women's lives. Literary sources comprise works by Livy, Catullus, Ovid, Juvenal and many others."--Publisher's description
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Women-- Rome-- Social conditions
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Women-- Rome-- Social conditions, Sources
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Rome, Civilization
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