Representing Agrippina - Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire

Zusatztext [The editors'] decision to publish the text with only the lightest editorial intervention is entirely justified by the quality of Judith Ginsbury's work. But it is also, in its unfinished state, an affecting memorial to its author, dramatizing in its loose ends the loss of the discipline that her death represents. Informationen zum Autor Judith Ginsburg, 1944-2002, was Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Eric S. Gruen is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley Klappentext Agrippina the Younger ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire. Judith Ginsburg's book provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Her incisive study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes and negative depictions aimed to undermine it. Zusammenfassung Provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. This study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes and negative depictions aimed to undermine it.

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• Authors: Judith Ginsburg, Judith (Associate Professor of Classics Ginsburg, Ginsburg Judith
• Assisted by: Eric Gruen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2005
• EAN: 9780195181418
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518141-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: American Philological Associat; Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies; Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Biography: historical, political and military