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Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in
antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and
Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen
through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection,
Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an
outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and
ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of
Vesuvius. Using visual, architectural, archaeological, and
epigraphic evidence, the authors consider how women in the region
interacted with their communities through family relationships,
businesses, and religious practices, in ways that could complement
or complicate their primary social roles as mothers, daughters, and
wives. They explore women-run businesses from weaving and
innkeeping to prostitution, consider representations of women in
portraits and graffiti, and examine how women expressed their
identities in the funerary realm. Providing a new model for
studying women in the ancient world, Women's Lives, Women's Voices
brings to light the day-to-day activities of women of all classes
in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking
artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of
Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman
interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works
ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over
the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations
of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to
Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks
was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their
social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy.
Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners
and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for
the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship
to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of
Egyptian history, customs, and myths.
This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural
materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of
materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with
master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and
sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary
intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact,
centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays
in this volume, written by a team of international experts,
collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human
manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of
social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the
function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras.
Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed
to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse,
this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the
Mediterranean world.
This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural
materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of
materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with
master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and
sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary
intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact,
centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays
in this volume, written by a team of international experts,
collectively argue that reuse was a natural feature of human
manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of
social pressure. Reuse often reflected appreciation for the
function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras.
Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed
to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and reuse,
this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the
Mediterranean world.
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