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Julia Augusta

Author : Tracene Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429648502
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Julia Augusta written by Tracene Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus’s wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the predominant female in the Roman imperial family. The book provides the most comprehensive examination of all extant coins of Livia to date, and provides one of the first studies on the images on Roman coins as gender-infused designs, which created a visual dialogue regarding Livia’s power and gender-roles in relation to those of male members of the imperial family. While the appearance of Roman women on coins was not entirely revolutionary, having roughly coincided with the introduction of images of powerful Roman statesmen to coins in the late 40s BCE, the degree to which Livia came to be commemorated on coins in the provinces and in Rome was unprecedented. This volume provides unique insights into the impact of these representations of Livia, both on coins and in other visual media. Julia Augusta: Images of Rome’s First Empress on the Coins of the Roman Empire will be of great interest to students of women and imperial imagery in the Roman Empire, as well as the importance of visual representation and Roman imperial ideology.

Rome's Christian Empress

Author : Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417006
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Rome's Christian Empress written by Joyce E. Salisbury and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. A Forgotten Empress -- 1 The "Most Noble" Princess: 379-395 -- 2 Orphan Princess in Stilicho's Shadow: 395-408 -- 3 Held Hostage by the Goths: 408-412 -- 4 Queen of the Visigoths: 411-416 -- 5 Wife and Mother in Ravenna: 416-424 -- 6 Empress of the Romans: 424-437 -- 7 The Empress Mother and Her Children: 438-455 -- Epilogue. The Fall of the Western Empire: 455-476 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

The Theodosian Code

Author : Jill Harries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Theodosian Code written by Jill Harries and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daughters of Rome

Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101478950
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Rome written by Kate Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced historical novel about two women with the power to sway an empire, from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Briar Club. A.D. 69. The Roman Empire is up for the taking. Everything will change—especially the lives of two sisters with a very personal stake in the outcome. Elegant and ambitious, Cornelia embodies the essence of the perfect Roman wife. She lives to one day see her loyal husband as Emperor. Her sister Marcella is more aloof, content to witness history rather than make it. But when a bloody coup turns their world upside-down, both women must maneuver carefully just to stay alive. As Cornelia tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered dreams, Marcella discovers a hidden talent for influencing the most powerful men in Rome. In the end, though, there can only be one Emperor...and one Empress.

Galla Placidia

Author : Hagith Sivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195379128
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Galla Placidia written by Hagith Sivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding in Gaul (414) -- Funerals in Barcelona (414-416) -- Making of an empress (417-425) -- Restoration and rehabilitation (425-431) -- Bride, a book, and a pope (437-438) -- Between Rome and Ravenna (438-450).

Imperial Women of Rome

Author : Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190455896
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Women of Rome written by Mary Taliaferro Boatwright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using all available sources, Boatwright explores the constraints and activities of the women of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE. Livia, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Domna, and others feature in this richly illustrated investigation of change, continuity, historical contingency, and personal agency in imperial women's pursuits and representations.

Mistress of Rome

Author : Kate Quinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101186631
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Mistress of Rome written by Kate Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Diamond Eye. “So gripping, your hands are glued to the book, and so vivid it burns itself into your mind’s eye and stays with you long after you turn the final page.”—Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author First-century Rome: One young woman will hold the fate of an empire in her hands. Thea, a captive from Judaea, is a clever and determined survivor hiding behind a slave’s docile mask. Purchased as a toy for the spoiled heiress Lepida Pollia, Thea evades her mistress’s spite and hones a secret passion for music. But when Thea wins the love of Rome’s newest and most savage gladiator and dares to dream of a better life, the jealous Lepida tears the lovers apart and casts Thea out. Rome offers many ways for the resourceful to survive, and Thea remakes herself as a singer for the Eternal ’City’s glittering aristocrats. As she struggles for success and independence, her nightingale voice attracts a dangerous new admirer: the Emperor himself. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her destiny. Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Rome’s most powerful man lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor’s mistress.

The Empresses of Rome

Author : Joseph McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Empresses of Rome written by Joseph McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Livia, Empress of Rome

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142998919X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Livia, Empress of Rome written by Matthew Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome is a subject of endless fascination, and in this new biography of the infamous Empress Livia, Matthew Dennison brings to life a woman long believed to be one of the most feared villainesses of history. Second wife of the emperor Augustus, mother of his successor Tiberius, grandmother of Claudius and great grandmother of Caligula, the empress Livia lived close to the center of Roman political power for eight turbulent decades. Her life spanned the years of Rome's transformation from Republic to Empire, and witnessed both its triumphs under the rule of Augustus and its lapse into instability under his dysfunctional successor. Livia was given the honorific title Augusta in her husband's will, and was posthumously deified by the emperor Claudius—but posterity would prove less respectful. The Roman historian Tacitus anathematized her as "malevolent" and a "feminine bully" and inspired Robert Graves's celebrated twentieth-century depiction of Livia in I, Claudius as the quintessence of the scheming matriarch, poisoning her relatives one by one to smooth her son's path to the imperial throne. Livia, Empress of Rome rescues the historical Livia from the crude caricature of popular myth to paint an elegant and richly textured portrait. In this rigorously researched biography, Dennison weighs the evidence found in contemporary sources to present a more nuanced assessment. Livia's true "crime," he reveals, was not murder but the exercise of power. The Livia who emerges here is a complex, courageous and gifted woman, and one of the most fascinating and perplexing figures of the ancient world.

Roman Women

Author : Eve D'Ambra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521818397
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by Eve D'Ambra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Roman Empresses

Author : Jacques Roergas de Serviez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empresses written by Jacques Roergas de Serviez and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Women of Imperial Rome

Author : Jasper Burns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134131852
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Great Women of Imperial Rome written by Jasper Burns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.

Roman Women

Author : Augusto Fraschetti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226260945
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Roman Women written by Augusto Fraschetti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theater, cultural life, and religion from the first through the fourth centuries. The contributors draw on rare documents in an attempt to reconstruct in detail the lives and accomplishments of these exceptional women, a difficult task considering that the Romans recorded very little about women. They thought it improper for a woman's virtues to be praised outside the home. Moreover, they believed that a feeble intellect, a weakness in character, and a general incompetence prevented a woman from participating in public life. Through this investigation, we encounter a number of idiosyncratic personalities. They include the vestal virgin Claudia; Cornelia, a matron; the passionate Fulvia; a mime known as "Lycoris"; the politician Livia; the martyr and writer Vibia Perpetua; a hostess named Helena Augusta; the intellectual Hypatia; and the saint Melania the Younger. Unlike their silent female counterparts, these women stood out in a culture where it was terribly difficult and odd to do so.

Dress and the Roman Woman

Author : Kelly Olson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134121202
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Dress and the Roman Woman written by Kelly Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspect of its visual language, for women as well as men. This engaging book collects and examines artistic evidence and literary references to female clothing, cosmetics and ornament in Roman antiquity, deciphering their meaning and revealing what it meant to be an adorned woman in Roman society. Cosmetics, ornaments and fashion were often considered frivolous, wasteful or deceptive, which reflects ancient views about the nature of women. However, Kelly Olson uses literary evidence to argue that women often took pleasure in fashioning themselves, and many treated adornment as a significant activity, enjoying the social status, influence and power that it signified. This study makes an important contribution to our knowledge of Roman women and is essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Roman life.

Ten Caesars

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668848
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Ten Caesars written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).

Julia Domna

Author : Barbara Levick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134323514
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Julia Domna written by Barbara Levick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of the her time, this book examines key questions in the study of Domna, her power, her travels and her life.