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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820234203321

Autore

Pomeroy Sarah B

Titolo

The murder of Regilla : a case of domestic violence in antiquity / / Sarah B. Pomeroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-04220-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Classificazione

NH 8550

Disciplina

364.152/3092

Soggetti

Uxoricide - Greece - Athens - History

Wife abuse - Greece - Athens - History

Trials (Murder) - Rome - History

Upper class women - Greece - Athens

Upper class women - Rome

Civilization, Greco-Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Girlhood in Rome -- Chapter 2. A Roman Matron in Imperial Athens -- Chapter 3. Public Life -- Chapter 4. Death in Athens and Murder Trial in Rome -- Chronological Chart. Notes. Acknowledgments. Art Credits. Index -- Chronological Chart -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Art Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes, a wealthy Greek. Twenty years later--and eight months pregnant with her sixth child--Regilla died under mysterious circumstances, after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodes's freedman. Though Herodes was charged, he was acquitted. Pomeroy's investigation suggests that despite Herodes's erection of numerous monuments to his deceased wife, he was in fact guilty of the crime.