Fulvia - Playing for Power At the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic, Fulvia first rose to prominence as the wife of P. Clodius Pulcher, scion of one of the city's most powerful families and one of its most infamous and scandalous politicians. In the aftermath of his murder, Fulvia refused to shrink from the glare of public scrutiny and helped to prosecute the man responsible. Later, as the wife of Antonius, she became the most powerful woman in Rome, at one point even taking an active role in the military conflict between Antonius's allies and Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. Her husbands' enemies painted her as domineering, vicious, greedy, and petty. This book peels away the invective to reveal a strong-willed, independent woman who was, by many traditional measures, an immensely successful Roman matron.

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• Authors: Celia E. Schultz, Celia E. (Professor and Chair of Classica Schultz, Celia E. (Professor and Chair of Classical Studies Schultz, Schultz Celia E.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780197601839
• ISBN: 978-0-19-760183-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Women in Antiquity
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; 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