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Summary:
- "This book explores the constraints and opportunities of the women in the Roman emperor's family from 35 BCE, when Octavia and Livia received unprecedented privileges from the state, to 235 CE, when Julia Mamaea was assassinated with her son Severus Alexander. Historical vignettes feature Agrippina the Younger, Domitia Longina, and some others as the book analyzes the history of Rome's most eminent women in legal, religious, military and other key settings of the principate. It also examines the women's exemplarity through imaging as well as their presence in the city of Rome and in the empire. Evidence comes from coins, inscriptions, papyri, sculpture, and law codes as well as ancient authors. Numerous illustrations, maps, genealogical trees, and detailed tables and appendices complement the text. The whole reveals imperial women's fluctuating but persistent marginalization and lack of agency despite their potential, even as it elucidates Rome's imperial power, legal system, family ideology, religion and imperial cult, court, capital city, and military customs"-- [Provided by publisher]
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on September 15, 2021).
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Call Numbers:
- HQ1136 .B535 2021eb
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ISBNs:
- 9780190455910 (electronic book)
0190455918 (electronic book)
9780190455903 (electronic book)
019045590X (electronic book)
9780197567036 (electronic book)
0197567037
9780190455897 (hardcover) [Invalid]
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2020050574
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1221017205