328 Pages
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Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history — gender, memory and identity — and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is... Read more
List of Illustrations, Abbreviations, Preface, Tabula Gratulatoria, Introduction, 1 Public Agency of Women in the Later Roman World, 2 Religious Agency and Civic Identity of Women in Ancient Ostia, 3 The Invisible Women of Roman Agrarian Work and Economy, 4 'Show them that You are Marcus's Daughter': The Public Role of Imperial Daughters in Second- and Third-Century CE Rome, 5 Defining Manliness, Constructing Identities: Alexander the Great mirroring an Exemplary Man in Late Antiquity, 6 'At the Age of Nineteen' (RG 1, 7 Conflict and Community, 8 Dress, Identity, Cultural Memory, 9 The Goddess and the Town, 10 Varius, multiplex, multiformis - Greek, Roman, Panhellenic, 11 Mental Hospitals in Pre-Modern Society, Index
Biography
Jussi Rantala (PhD) is a researcher at the University of Tampere. His publications include >The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus. The Ideologies of a New Roman Empire> (Routledge 2017).
