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Helena Augusta - Mother of the Empire (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,082
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Helena Augusta - Mother of the Empire (Hardcover): Julia Hillner

Helena Augusta - Mother of the Empire (Hardcover)

Julia Hillner

Series: WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY

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In the middle of the third century, a girl was born on the north-eastern frontier of the Roman empire. Eighty years later, she died as Flavia Iulia Helena, Augusta of the Roman world and mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, without ever having been married to an emperor herself. In Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire, Julia Hillner traces Helena's story through her life's peaks, which generated beautiful imperial artwork, entertaining legends as well as literary outrage. But Helena Augusta also pays careful attention to the disruptions in Helena's life course and in her commemoration-disruptions that were created by her nearest male relatives. Hillner shows that Helena's story was not just determined by the love of a son or the rise of Christianity. It was also-like that of many other late Roman women-defined by male violence and by the web of changing female relationships around her, to which Helena was sometimes marginal, sometimes central and sometimes ancillary. Helena Augusta offers unique insight into the roles of imperial women in Constantinian self-display and in dynastic politics from the Tetrarchy to the Theodosian Age, and it also reminds us that the late Roman female life course, even that of an empress, was fragile and non-linear.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: WOMEN IN ANTIQUITY
Release date: November 2022
Authors: Julia Hillner (Professor of Ancient History at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies)
Dimensions: 241 x 159 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-087529-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > General
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LSN: 0-19-087529-1
Barcode: 9780190875299

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