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Representing Agrippina : constructions of female power in the early Roman Empire / Judith Ginsburg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginsburg, Judith, author.
- Series:
- American classical studies ; no. 49.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- American classical studies ; v. 50
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agrippina, Minor, 15-59.
- Agrippina.
- Agrippina, Minor, 15-59--In literature.
- Agrippina, Minor, 15-59--Portraits.
- Empresses--Rome--Biography.
- Empresses.
- Rome--History--Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study of Agrippa the Younger, who ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire, exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists, whose portraits served to buttress the image of the regime, and the designs of the historians, who aimed to undermine it.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Agrippina in the Literary Tradition; Chapter 2: Visualizing Agrippina; Chapter 3: Agrippina and the Power of Rhetorical Stereotypes; Chart of the Julio-Claudians; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-141) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770504-9
- 0-19-029276-8
- 1-280-42851-1
- 0-19-534615-7
- 1-4237-6200-2
- 1-60256-554-6
- OCLC:
- 94952944
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