Fulvia Playing for Power At the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, daughter of Sempronia and Bambalio, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). It peels away the heavily biased accounts of her to reveal a strong-willed, independent woman who was, by many traditional measures, a successful Roman matron.

About the author

Celia E. Schultz is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic and A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I.

Summary

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, daughter of Sempronia and Bambalio, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). It peels away the heavily biased accounts of her to reveal a strong-willed, independent woman who was, by many traditional measures, a successful Roman matron.

Additional text

This biography of Fulvia has numerous merits. It not only provides a balanced and coherent narrative about a Roman matron, but it also informs, in a didactic way, about the functioning of Roman politics and society.

Product details

• Authors: Celia E. (Professor and Chair of Classical Studies Schultz, Celia E. Schultz, Celia E. (Professor and Chair of Classica Schultz, Schultz Celia E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
• EAN: 9780190697136
• ISBN: 978-0-19-069713-6
• Pages: 144
• Series: Women in Antiquity
• Subjects: HISTORY / Ancient / General, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, History of Art, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE