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Summary:

This book discusses women's participation in civic life in the cities of Italy and the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire from the late first century BC to the late third century AD (roughly the Roman Principate). Excluding empresses and other women of the imperial family, it focuses on the civic roles of non-imperial women in Italian and provincial towns on the basis of a corpus of approximately 1,400 inscriptions and, to a lesser extent, honorific portrait statues. Separate chapters deal with women's activities as priestesses, benefactresses, and patronesses or 'mothers' of cities and civic associations and with the public honour they received. In comparison to women's virtual absence from public life in the city of Rome, inscriptions show that in the local cities, women fulfilled important civic roles for which they were honoured with statues and inscriptions and, more rarely, public funerals. The book discusses the reasons and motives for women's civic participation, their spread (both regionally and over time), and numbers in comparison to those of their male counterparts. By presenting a fresh and detailed view of women's civic roles in the towns outside Rome, the book aims to provide a better understanding of women's integration into their communities and to contribute to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire.

Table of Contents:

• 1. A world rull of cities
• 2. Civic priesthoods
• 3. Civic benefactresses
• 4. Social networks and civic associations
• 5. Civic patronage and "motherhood" of cities and associations
• 6. Female presence : public honour
• Conclusions.

Author/Creator:

Hemelrijk, Emily Ann, 1953- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Hidden lives, public personae: women and civic life in the Roman West [by Hemelrijk, E.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hidden Lives, Public Personae : Women and Civic Life in the Roman West [by Hemelrijk, E.] (Cary : Oxford University Press, ©2015 — ISBN 9780190251888)

Subjects:

Women — Rome — History

Women — Italy — History — To 1500

Sex role — Rome — History

Cities and towns — Rome — History

Community life — Rome — History

Rome — Social conditions

Italy — Social conditions

Roman provinces — Social conditions

To 1500

Sex role

Cities and towns

Community life

Social conditions

Roman provinces

Women

Italy

Rome (Empire)

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Vendor-supplied metadata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 610 pages) : illustrations, maps

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1136 .H44 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780190251895 (electronic bk.)
0190251891 (electronic bk.)
9780190247973
0190247975
9780190251901
0190251905
9780190251888 (hardback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

915343741