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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome

English · Hardback

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Bauman delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements.

List of contents

Preface; I Introduction; II Women in the Conflict of the Orders; III Women in the second punic war; IV The Politics of Protest; V Women in Gracchan Politics; VI The Political Strategists of the Late Republic; VII The Triumviral Period: Diplomacy, Oratory and Leadership; VIII The Foothills of the Principate; IX Women in the Augustan Principate; X Tiberius, Livia and Agrippina; XI Caligula's Sisters; XII Messalina, Agrippina and Claudius; XIII Agrippina, Nero and the Domus; XIV In Retrospect

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Richard A Baumann

Summary

Bauman delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements.

Additional text

`... packs in a great mass of useful information as it traces the story of Roman women form the mid-fourth century B.C to A.D. 68.' - Greece & Rome

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