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Autore |
Milnor Kristina |
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Titolo |
Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus [[electronic resource] ] : inventing private life / / Kristina Milnor |
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Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-75823-6 |
0-19-151564-7 |
1-4294-3083-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (373 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Rome - Social conditions |
Women - History - To 500 |
Sex role - Rome |
Households - Rome |
Electronic books. |
Rome Social life and customs |
Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-333) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Reading and Writing Gender on the Augustan Palatine; 2. Other Men's Wives: Domesticity and Display in Vitruvius' de Architectura; 3. Women, History, and the Law; 4. A Domestic Disturbance: Talking About the Triumvirs in the Early Empire; 5. Natural Urges: Marriage, Philosophy, and the Work of the House; Epilogue. Burning Down the House: Nero and the End of Julio-Claudian Rule; References; Index Locorum; General Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way of understanding the nature of political life. - ;The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic |
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