Great Women of Imperial Rome
Mothers and Wives of the Caesars
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 9 November 2006
- ISBN 9780415408981
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 635 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 306 Halftones, black & white; 8 Line drawings, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
MoreLong description:
Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations.
Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome.
Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes:
- a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism
- three third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform
- an empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy.
Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women?s studies.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; 1: Livia; 2: Antonia; 3: Agrippina the Elder; 4: Agrippina the Younger; 5: Domitia Longina; 6: Plotina; 7: Sabina; 8: Faustina the Elder; 9: Faustina the Younger; 10: Julia Domna; 11: Julia Mamaea; 12: Epilogue
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