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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theoryPublication details: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (x, 360 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191515644
  • 0191515647
  • 9780199280827
  • 0199280827
Other title:
  • Inventing private life
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1136
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Contents:
Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine -- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Women, history, and the law -- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire -- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house -- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule.
Summary: In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way of understanding the nature of political life. The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on 'traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters.
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Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine -- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Women, history, and the law -- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire -- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house -- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule.

In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way of understanding the nature of political life. The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on 'traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters.

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