Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus [[electronic resource] ] : inventing private life / / Kristina Milnor

• Autore: Milnor Kristina
• Pubblicazione: Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.40937
• Soggetto topico: Women - Rome - Social conditions; Women - History - To 500; Sex role - Rome; Households - Rome
• Soggetto geografico: Rome Social life and customs; Rome History Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-333) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus
• ISBN: 1-280-75823-6; 0-19-151564-7; 1-4294-3083-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248282803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.