Gender, memory, and identity in the Roman world / edited by Jussi Rantala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rantala, Jussi, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages

Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Rome--History.

Women.

Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--Rome.

Identity (Psychology).

Sex--Rome--History.

Sex.

Memory.

Intellectual life.

Rome--Intellectual life.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Preface

Tabula gratulatoria

Introduction / Jussi Rantala

Public agency of women in the later Roman world / Ville Vuolanto

Religious agency and civic identity of women in ancient Ostia / Marja-Leena Hänninen

The invisible women of Roman agrarian work and economy / Lena Larsson Lovén

'Show them that you are Marcus's daughter': the public role of imperial daughters in Second- and Third-century CE Rome / Sanna Joska

Defining manliness, constructing identities: Alexander the Great mirroring an exemplary man in late Antiquity / Jaakkojuhani Peltonen

'At the age of nineteen' (RG1): life, longevity, and the formation of an Augustan past (43-38 BCE) / Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence

Conflict and community: Anna of Carthage and Roman identity in Augustan poetry / Jussi Rantala

Dress, identity, cultural memory: Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in context / Ria Berg

The goddess and the town: memory, feast, and identity between Demeter and Saint Lucia / Marxiano Melotti

Varius, multiplex, multiformis - Greek, Roman, Panhellenic: multiple identities of the Hadrianic era and beyond / Arja Karivieri

Mental hospitals in pre-modern society: antiquity, Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam / Christian Laes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789048540099

9048540097

Publisher Number:

40028913279

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.