The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longfellow, Brenda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in public life--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Women in public life.

Women--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Social life and customs.

Women.

Women--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Social conditions.

Art--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Art.

Architecture--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Architecture.

Pompeii (Extinct city)--Social life and customs.

Pompeii (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Following up on her co-edited volume, Women's Lives, Women's Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples, Brenda Longfellow examines women's public lives in Pompeii. Pulling together statues, inscriptions, graffiti, wall painting, and architecture from tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and public spaces, she builds up a multifaceted picture of the lived experience of Pompeian women. By exploring how real women of all social backgrounds acted in public, rather than solely within the domestic sphere as is commonly done within studies of antiquity, she foregrounds their agency in interactions ranging from selling goods in the marketplace, to commissioning statues used to adorn these same spaces, to performing funerary rites. The remarkable remains of Pompeii allow a unique opportunity to study women from all classes, from slaves to freedwomen to elite matrons. Sometimes named, sometimes anonymous, these women left their marks in inscriptions and graffiti, funerary monuments and votive offerings, and civic buildings and public monuments. Longfellow centers her narrative around a few key women, including the city's most notable female patron, Eumachia, and uses them to examine female roles in funerals and postmortem commemorations, civic patronage and benefactions, commerce, priesthoods, and the home. By following these individuals, she is able to tell their stories and examine women's lives in Pompeii in both the concrete and abstract, allowing us to better understand their importance to the city and society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mulvia Prisca and the women in Pompeii

Life after life : female tomb builders

Annedia and the first generation of tomb builders

Eumachia and her neighbors

Funerary and civic honors for Pompeian women

Eumachia, Mamia, and the religious activities of Pompeian women

A woman's place? The domestic sphere

Minding their own business(es) : Julia Felix, Holconia, and Eumachia in the economic life of Pompeii

Alphabetical list of female tomb patrons and supervisors in Pompeii.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Longfellow, Brenda The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii

ISBN:

9781477331248

OCLC:

1519994056