Roman Women

Informationen zum Autor Eve D'Ambra is chair and professor of art at Vassar College. She is the author of Roman Art (Cambridge! 1998). Klappentext This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations - of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late Republic to the high Imperial period, Eve DAmbra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that recreate how life was lived. Zusammenfassung This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household! work and leisure! worship and social obligations-of women of different social ranks. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Gender and status; 2. Marriage and family; 3. Women's work; 4. Public life; Glossary; Roman authors; Selected bibliography.

Autorentext
Eve D'Ambra and Guy P.R. Métraux

Klappentext
This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane and less celebrated aspects of daily life - family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations - of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late Republic to the high Imperial period, Eve DAmbra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that recreate how life was lived.


Inhalt
1. Gender and status; 2. Marriage and family; 3. Women's work; 4. Public life; Glossary; Roman authors; Selected bibliography.

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