Daily life of women in ancient Rome / Sara Elise Phang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phang, Sara Elise, author.

Series:

Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.

The Greenwood press daily life through history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--History--To 500.

Women.

Women--Rome.

Women--Rome--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 297 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2022]

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

"This book is about the "daily life" of Roman women in the largest sense of daily life - the larger experiences of life from birth and childhood, through marriage and the family, the economic activities, public roles, pre-Christian religion, and the universal experiences of death and mourning. The focus of this book is on relatively "ordinary" women - including women of the upper classes - and away from "extraordinary" women such as the relatives of aristocratic politicians during the late Republic or the empresses and women of the imperial family during the Principate. This book uses documentary sources as well as literary ones; two inscriptions have already been quoted from the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, a collection of hundreds of thousands of Latin inscriptions on stone that have been reconstructed, transcribed, and published. Other documentary sources are discussed in this chapter. They are more likely to represent women's own voices and display the agency that women had within the framework of Roman society"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Status and gender

Birth and mortality

Childhood and education

Marriage

Dress and status

Economic life

Slavery and manumission

Social life

Public life

Death and remembrance

Religious life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Phang, Sara Elise Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome

ISBN:

9798400637476

9798216071532

9781440871696

1440871698

OCLC:

1284920998