Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life /
In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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ISBN: | 9780191515644 0191515647 9780199280827 0199280827 1280758236 9781280758232 1429430834 9781429430838 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine
- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura
- Women, history, and the law
- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire
- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house
- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule.