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Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus - Inventing Private Life (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,942
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Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus - Inventing Private Life (Paperback): Kristina Milnor

Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus - Inventing Private Life (Paperback)

Kristina Milnor

Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory

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The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of texts and their contexts in order to explore this paradox. Through an examination of authors such as Vitruvius, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Seneca the Elder, and Columella, she argues that female domesticity was both a principle and a problem for early imperial writers, as they sought to construct a new definition of who and what constituted Roman public life.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
Release date: March 2008
First published: June 2008
Authors: Kristina Milnor
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923572-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
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LSN: 0-19-923572-4
Barcode: 9780199235728

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