Women in ancient Rome : a sourcebook /
MacLachlan, Bonnie.
London : Bloomsbury,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Rome's Beginnings. Women and the legendary past -- Women and the early kings -- The Tarquins -- Etruscan women. -- The Early and Middle Republic. The early laws and women: the Twelve Tables -- Courageous women of the Early Republic -- Women and religious life -- Gender tensions -- The Punic Wars -- Women and property -- Women of the upper and lower classes -- Women in Roman comedy. -- The Late Republic. Women and powerful men -- Some remarkable Roman women of the Late Republic -- Weddings -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Agricultural workers. -- The Julio-Claudian Period. Augustan marriage legislation -- Women of the imperial households -- The Latin elegiac poets -- Women in the inscriptional record -- The housekeeper of the villa -- Religion and magic. -- The Later Empire. Women of the imperial households -- Women throughout the empire -- Wealthy women -- Lower-class women -- The female body -- Adultery and prostitution -- Religion.
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