Reading Roman Women

Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Roman Women written by Suzanne Dixon and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.

Author : Eve D'Ambra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521818397
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by Eve D'Ambra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Kelly Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134121202
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress and the Roman Woman written by Kelly Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.

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 : John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Roman Women written by Suzanne Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augusto Fraschetti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226260945
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by Augusto Fraschetti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theater, cultural life, and religion from the first through the fourth centuries. The contributors draw on rare documents in an attempt to reconstruct in detail the lives and accomplishments of these exceptional women, a difficult task considering that the Romans recorded very little about women. They thought it improper for a woman's virtues to be praised outside the home. Moreover, they believed that a feeble intellect, a weakness in character, and a general incompetence prevented a woman from participating in public life. Through this investigation, we encounter a number of idiosyncratic personalities. They include the vestal virgin Claudia; Cornelia, a matron; the passionate Fulvia; a mime known as "Lycoris"; the politician Livia; the martyr and writer Vibia Perpetua; a hostess named Helena Augusta; the intellectual Hypatia; and the saint Melania the Younger. Unlike their silent female counterparts, these women stood out in a culture where it was terribly difficult and odd to do so.

Author : Holly Beers
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830849890
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Week In the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman written by Holly Beers and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.

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 : Ann Raia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Roman Women written by Ann Raia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intermediate reader in Latin on the theme of women in the Roman world. Readings, exercises and extensive on line resources.