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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

By: Emily Ann Hemelrijk

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

By: Emily Ann Hemelrijk

By its in-depth discussion of women's civic roles in the towns outside Rome, this study offers a compelling new vision of Roman women's integration into their communities and contributes to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire.

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0190251883

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

By: Emily Hemelrijk

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Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

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Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Italy outside Rome and in the numerous cities of the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire, this books offers a new view on Roman women and urban society in the Roman Principate. Drawing on epigraphy and archaeology, and to a lesser extent on legal and literary texts, women's civic roles as priestesses, benefactresses and patronesses or 'mothers' of cities and associations (collegia and the Augustales) are brought to the fore. In contrast to the city of Rome, which was dominated by the imperial family, wealthy women in the local Italian and provincial towns had ample opportunity to leave their mark on the city. Their motives to spend their money, time and energy for the benefit of their cities and the rewards their contributions earned them take centre stage. Assessing the meaning and significance of their contributions for themselves and their families and for the cities that enjoyed them, the book presents a new and detailed view of the role of women and gender in Roman urban life.

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0190463821

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Women and Civic Life in the Roman West

By: Emily Ann Hemelrijk

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Matrona Docta

Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

By: Emily A. Hemelrijk

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Educated Women in the Roman Elite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

By: Emily A. Hemelrijk

Matrona Docta presents a unique study of the education of upper-class women in Roman society in the central period of Roman history, from the second century BC to AD 235. Emily A. Hemelrijk reconstructs women's opportunities to acquire an education, the impediments they faced, the level of education they could reach and the judgement on educated women in Roman society. She examines also the role of women as patronesses of literature, learning and Roman women's writing.

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1134642849

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The Greatest Empire

A Life of Seneca

By: Emily Wilson

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The Greatest Empire

A Life of Seneca

By: Emily Wilson

By any measure, Seneca (?4-65AD) is one of the most significant figures in both Roman literature and ancient philosophy. His writings are voluminous and diverse, ranging from satire to disturbing, violent tragedies, from metaphysical theory to moral and political discussions of virtue and anger. Seneca found himself at the turbulent center of Roman imperial power, making him thus an important witness to the Empire's first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians. Exiled by the emperor Claudius in the wake of a sex scandal, he was eventually brought back to Rome to become tutor and, later, speech-writer and advisor to Nero. Seneca was suspected of plotting against Nero, condemned to die, and ultimately took his own life-an act that is one of the most iconic suicides in Western history. The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. How can we reconcile the bloody tragedies with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? How are we to balance Seneca the man of principle, who counseled a life of calm and simplicity, with Seneca the man of the moment, who amassed a vast personal fortune in the service of an emperor seen by many, at the time and afterwards, as an insane tyrant? In this definitive and moving biography, Emily Wilson presents Seneca as a man under enormous pressure, struggling for compromise in a world of absolutism. The Greatest Empire offers us the portrait of a life lived perilously in the gap between political realities and philosophical ideals, between what we aspire to be and what we are.

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Oxford University Press

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0199392889

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Matrona Docta

Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

By: Emily Ann Hemelrijk

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Educated Women in the Roman Élite from Cornelia to Julia Domna

By: Emily Ann Hemelrijk

The first comprehensive study of the education of upper-class Roman women, and of their participation in the intellectual life of their times.

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Psychology Press

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0415341272

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9780415341271

Magnolia Parks T1

By: Jessa Hastings,Odile Carton,Emily Lawless

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Magnolia Parks T1

By: Jessa Hastings,Odile Carton,Emily Lawless

Magnolia et BJ vous déchireront le coeur et l'âme comme personne d'autre ! Il y a toutes sortes d'amours dans ce monde. Mais il y en a un que vous feignez de ne pas ressentir, même si c'est bien le cas, même si vous le savez, même s'il occupe vos pensées dès le matin - parce qu'aimer quelqu'un ainsi est douloureux. Et si le temps vous a enseigné quelque chose, c'est que cela n'a aucune importance. Vous l'aimerez, en dépit de tout, jusqu'à la fin de vos jours. Elle est belle, riche, égocentrique, légèrement névrosée et appartient aux hautes sphères de la société londonienne. Il est le bad boy dont tous les paparazzi de Grande-Bretagne s'arrachent la photo, et il lui a brisé le coeur. Pourtant, Magnolia Parks et BJ Ballentine sont faits l'un pour l'autre, tout le monde le sait. Elle sort avec d'autres personnes pour le tenir à distance ; il couche avec d'autres filles pour se venger. Malgré leurs vaines tentatives pour tourner la page, ils finissent toujours dans les bras l'un de l'autre. Mais ce cercle vicieux laisse des traces indélébiles sur leur existence... Alors que des secrets commencent à refaire surface, Magnolia et BJ doivent confronter la question fatidique qu'ils ont évitée toute leur vie : combien d'amours a-t-on dans une seule vie ? Le phénomène TikTok qui ravira tous les fans de Gossip Girl.

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Hauteville

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2381227725

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9782381227726

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Hidden Lives, Public Personae

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Hidden Lives, Public Personae

Hidden Lives, Public Personae

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The Greatest Empire

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