Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life / Kristina Milnor.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Main Author:
Milnor, Kristina
Series:Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory
Subjects:
Women > Rome > Social conditions.
Women > History > To 500.
Sex role > Rome.
Households > Rome.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > History > Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Format: Book
Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life /
Table of Contents:
  • 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. A 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.

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