Kristina Milnor

Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus

Inventing Private Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780199235728
• ISBN-10: 0199235724
• Artikelnr.: 23518522

Autorenporträt

Kristina Milnor is Assistant Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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: 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

Rezensionen

Review from previous edition ...[a] fine new study. Matthew Leigh, Times Literary Supplement