Lives Of The Roman Empresses

Author : Carolinne White
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141943378
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Roman Christian Women written by Carolinne White and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Perpetua shouted out with joy as the sword pierced her, for she wanted to taste some of the pain and she even guided the hesitant hand of the trainee gladiator towards her own throat' Lives of Roman Christian Women is a unique collection of letters and documents from the third to the fifth centuries, celebrating Christian women from across the Roman Empire. During a crucial period in which Christianity transformed from a persecuted faith to the official religion of the Empire, these writings reveal the women who chose to dedicate their lives to Christ, by embracing martyrdom or by adopting a life of poverty and prayer, renouncing not only wealth but also their duties as wives and mothers.

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801844751
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Life in Greece & Rome written by Mary R. Lefkowitz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new texts to sections throughout the book, vividly describing women's sentiments and circumstances through readings on love, bereavement, and friendship, as well as property rights, breast cancer, female circumcision, and women's roles in ancient religions, including Christianity and pagan cults.

Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101478950
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Rome written by Kate Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced historical novel about two women with the power to sway an empire, from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Diamond Eye. A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. Everything will change—especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. Her sister Marcella is more aloof, content to witness history rather than make it. But when a bloody coup turns their world upside-down, both women must maneuver carefully just to stay alive. As Cornelia tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams, Marcella discovers a hidden talent for influencing the most powerful men in Rome. In the end, though, there can only be one Emperor...and one Empress.

Author : Jacques Roergas De Serviez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781479413607
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas De Serviez and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Roergas de Serviez (1679-1727) was a French historian best known for his Lives of the Roman Empresses, which details the power struggles underlying the Roman Empire until the time of Constantine.

Author : Jacques Roergas de Serviez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Roergas de Serviez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacques Roergas de Serviez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417006
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome's Christian Empress written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. A Forgotten Empress -- 1 The "Most Noble" Princess: 379-395 -- 2 Orphan Princess in Stilicho's Shadow: 395-408 -- 3 Held Hostage by the Goths: 408-412 -- 4 Queen of the Visigoths: 411-416 -- 5 Wife and Mother in Ravenna: 416-424 -- 6 Empress of the Romans: 424-437 -- 7 The Empress Mother and Her Children: 438-455 -- Epilogue. The Fall of the Western Empire: 455-476 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Author : Jacques Roergas de Serviez
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
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Download or read book The Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142998919X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Livia, Empress of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius and great grandmother of Caligula, the empress Livia lived close to the center of Roman political power for eight turbulent decades. Her life spanned the years of Rome's transformation from Republic to Empire, and witnessed both its triumphs under the rule of Augustus and its lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor. Livia was given the honorific title Augusta in her husband's will, and was posthumously deified by the emperor Claudius—but posterity would prove less respectful. The Roman historian Tacitus anathematized her as "malevolent" and a "feminine bully" and inspired Robert Graves's celebrated twentieth-century depiction of Livia in I, Claudius as the quintessence of the scheming matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son's path to the imperial throne. Livia, Empress of Rome rescues the historical Livia from the crude caricature of popular myth to paint an elegant and richly textured portrait. In this rigorously researched biography, Dennison weighs the evidence found in contemporary sources to present a more nuanced assessment. Livia's true "crime," he reveals, was not murder but the exercise of power. The Livia who emerges here is a complex, courageous and gifted woman, and one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures of the ancient world.