Roman Women

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Synopsis
This richly illustrated book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less-celebrated aspects of daily life -- family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations -- of women of different social ranks.

Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late republic to the high imperial period, Eve D'Ambra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that re-create how life was lived.

She also demonstrates how texts and material objects take part in shaping realities and what they can tell us about the texture of lives and social attitudes, if not the emotions of women in Roman antiquity.

Copyright:
2007

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
ISBN-13:
9780521521581
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Cambridge University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Children's Books, Nonfiction, Teens, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Worth Trust
Proofread By:
Worth Trust
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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