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1 online resource (612 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of plates; Abbreviations; I INTRODUCTION; II THE LEGAL STATUS OF ROMAN WOMEN; The early Republic; The emancipation of Roman women; Competing explanations; III WAR AND THE WOMEN OF PROPERTY; Legend and reality; Dowry: A vehicle for conspicuous consumption; Inheritance; Women of wealth in the late Republic; IV WAR AND WORKING WOMEN; The plebs rustica; The plebs urbana; Findings; V PARENT AND CHILD; The enigma of Roman childhood; Modern insights; Patria potestas, materna auctoritas |
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Slavery and surrogate parentingAppendices; i Roman crafts and tradeswomen; ii Professional women; iii Wet-nurses; iv Some Egyptian wet-nursing contracts; v Republican and Augustan actresses; vi Female dancers and entertainers; vii Pompeian prostitutes; Selected bibliography; Index of sources; Index of persons; Index of subjects |
| Summary |
J.K. Evans' pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans' investigation ranges from Cicero's wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept w |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317810292 |
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1317810295 |
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