num_pages: 288
description: This book covers Julia's life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a sympathetic, courageous, intelligent, and important woman.This book contains a fresh re-assessment of the one of the most significant figures of her time and questions:- Was Julia more powerful than earlier empresses? - Did she really promote despotism? - How seriously is her literary circle to be taken?As part of a dynasty which used force and violence to preserve its rule, she was distrusted by its subjects; as a Syrian, she was the object of prejudice; as a woman with power, she was resented. On the other hand, Domna was the centre of a literary circle considered highly significant by nineteenth-century admirers.
language: English
title: Julia Domna: Syrian Empress
titlecomplete: Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (Women of the Ancient World)
characters: Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Geta, Caracalla
genres: Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 9
places: Roman Empire
series: Women of the Ancient World
publisher: Routledge