Author: Eve D'Ambra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521818397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7
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Roman Women
Author: Eve D'Ambra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521818397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521818397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Publisher description
Dress and the Roman Woman
Author: Kelly Olson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134121202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134121202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.
Reading Roman Women
Author: Suzanne Dixon
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
How do we retrieve the lives of "real Roman women"? This book presents a range of examples to support the argument that our ideas of what we "know" about women's work, sexuality, commerce and political activity in the Roman world have been shaped by the format, or genre, of each ancient source.
Roman Wives, Roman Widows
Author: Bruce W. Winter
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802849717
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802849717
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.
Roman Women
Author: John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A Week In the Life of a Greco-Roman Woman
Author: Holly Beers
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830849890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830849890
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In first-century Ephesus, life is not easy for women. A young wife meets her daily struggles with equanimity and courage. She holds poverty and hunger at bay, fights to keep her child healthy and strong, and navigates the unpredictability of her husband's temperament. But into the midst of her daily fears and worries, a new hope appears: a teaching that challenges her society's most basic assumption. What is this new teaching? And what will it demand of her? In this gripping novel, Holly Beers introduces us to the first-century setting where the apostle Paul first proclaimed the gospel. Illuminated by historical images and explanatory sidebars, this lively story not only shows us the rich tapestry of life in a thriving Greco-Roman city, it also foregrounds the interior life of one courageous woman—and the radical new freedom the gospel promised her.
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
Book Description
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic
Author: Celia E. Schultz
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807830186
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to R
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807830186
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to R
Ancient Roman Women
Author: Brian Williams
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403405227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Looks at how women lived in ancient Roman times, discussing marriage, fashion, and religion.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781403405227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Looks at how women lived in ancient Roman times, discussing marriage, fashion, and religion.
Agrippina
Author: Emma Southon
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1911586610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
They said she was a tyrant, a murderer, and "the most wicked woman in history." She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and an leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history. She was the sister, niece, wife and mother of emperors. She was an empress in her own right. And she was a nuanced, fearless trail-blazer in the Roman world.” The story of Agrippina - the first empress of Rome – is the story of an empire at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless height.
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1911586610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
They said she was a tyrant, a murderer, and "the most wicked woman in history." She kicked her way into the male spaces of politics and demanded to be recognised as an equal and an leader. For her audacity, she was murdered by her son and reviled by history. She was the sister, niece, wife and mother of emperors. She was an empress in her own right. And she was a nuanced, fearless trail-blazer in the Roman world.” The story of Agrippina - the first empress of Rome – is the story of an empire at its bloody, extravagant, chaotic, ruthless height.