War Women And Children In Ancient Rome Routledge Revivals

Author : John K. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317810287
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals) written by John K. Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

Author : Caryn A. Reeder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108562124
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendering War and Peace in the Gospel of Luke written by Caryn A. Reeder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Caryn A. Reeder examines the gendered language and imagery of war and peace in the Gospel of Luke. Peace is represented with the blessing of fertility, pregnancy, and newborn infants. Pregnant and nursing women, women and children in general, and feminized Jerusalem also represent the horrors of war in the Gospel - abandoned, crushed to the ground, subject to woe and distress, to the point that barren wombs and dry breasts become a blessing. Reeder argues that the representation of peace with pregnant women and newborn infants, the most vulnerable in the population, indicates that victory belongs to God. This message is clarified by the encouragement of surrender and flight from besieged Jerusalem, rather than an active defense. Notably, there are no men to defend Jerusalem in Luke's warnings of war. The Gospel undermines the masculinization of war commonly found in Greco-Roman texts by redirecting the means of making peace from the violence of victory to the unmanly act of surrender.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473856612
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women at War in the Classical World written by Paul Chrystal and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how warfare affected—and was affected by—women in ancient times. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men in the Greco-Roman world, there were plenty of exceptions, with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants—Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra, and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And both Greeks and Romans encountered women among their barbarian enemies, such as Tomyris, Boudicca, and Zenobia. More commonly, of course, women were directly affected as noncombatant victims of rape and enslavement as spoils of war, and this makes up an important strand of the author’s discussion. The portrayal of female warriors and goddesses in classical mythology and literature, and the use of war to justify gender roles and hierarchies, are also considered. Overall, this is a landmark survey of women’s role in, and experience of, war in the Classical world.

Author : Richard Alexander Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Politics in Ancient Rome written by Richard Alexander Bauman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. J. Wiedemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415003360
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adults and Children in the Roman Empire written by Thomas E. J. Wiedemann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780415041683
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Mother written by Suzanne Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134563183
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World written by Suzanne Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An international collection of expert contributors go beyond the usual canon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law, as well as Christian and dream-interpretation literature. Topics covered include: * child exposure and abandonment * children in imperial propaganda * reconstructing lower-class families * gender, burial and status * epitaphs and funerary monuments * adoption and late parenthood. The result is an up-to-date survey of some of the most exciting avenues currently being explored in Roman social history.

Author : Richard A. Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138138124
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Politics in Ancient Rome written by Richard A. Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781552872
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by Paul Chrystal and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using historical sources ( Livy, Suetonius, et al) as well as numismatic and sculptural evidence, Rome Women details the lives of Rome's most influential women to examine, uniquely, what effect they had on contemporary politics, and or how far they and their reputations and actions reflected and affected women generally in Roman society. No existing book provides biographies of these extraordinary women and then examines the contemporary and later socio-political effects they had. Existing titles look at the bad women - notably the wives and mothers of emperors; Rome Women does that but also, uniquely, examines the good women too: the icons and the role models. No other book puts all if this in a socio-political context to form valuable conclusions about the effect these women had on Roman politics and society down the years. Good women such as Lucretia and Cornelia and the loyal wives described by Tacitus and Pliny are covered as are less virtuous but sophisticated and permissive women such as Clodia, Sempronia, Cynthia and Delia. The bad but politically significant are represented by Fulvia and Cleopatra (not a Roman but embroiled in things Roman) and many of the wives and daughter of the Emperors.