Arguments with silence : writing the history of Roman women

1. Verfasser: Richlin, Amy, 1951- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Umfang/Format: x, 414 pages : illustrations.
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Online Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : in search of Roman women
  • Approaches to the sources on adultery in Rome
  • Invective against women in Roman satire
  • Julia's jokes, Galla Placidia, and the Roman use of women as political icons
  • Sulpicia the satirist
  • Reading Ovid's rapes
  • Making up a woman : the face of Roman gender
  • Carrying water in a sieve : class and the body in Roman women's religion
  • Pliny's brassiere
  • Emotional work : lamenting the Roman dead
  • The ethnographer's dilemma and the dream of a lost golden age.