Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World /

Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World / / ed. by Jussi Rantala.

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Berg, Ria,
Harlow, Mary,
Hänninen, Marja-Leena,
Joska, Sanna,
Karivieri, Arja,
Laes, Christian,
Laurence, Ray,
Lovén, Lena Larsson,
Melotti, Marxiano,
Peltonen, Jaakkojuhani,
Rantala, Jussi,
Vuolanto, Ville,
HerausgeberIn:
Rantala, Jussi,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Tabula Gratulatoria
  • Introduction
  • 1. Public Agency of Women in the Later Roman World
  • 2. Religious Agency and Civic Identity of Women in Ancient Ostia
  • 3. The Invisible Women of Roman Agrarian Work and Economy
  • 4. 'Show them that You are Marcus's Daughter'. The Public Role of Imperial Daughters in Second- and Third-Century ce Rome
  • 5. Defining Manliness, Constructing Identities. Alexander the Great mirroring an Exemplary Man in Late Antiquity
  • 6. 'At the Age of Nineteen' (RG 1). Life, Longevity, and the Formation of an Augustan Past (43-38 BCE)
  • 7. Conflict and Community. Anna of Carthage and Roman Identity in Augustan Poetry
  • 8. Dress, Identity, Cultural Memory. Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in Context
  • 9. The Goddess and the Town. Memory, Feast, and Identity between Demeter and Saint Lucia
  • 10. Varius, multiplex, multiformis - Greek, Roman, Panhellenic. Multiple Identities of the Hadrianic Era and Beyond
  • 11. Mental Hospitals in Pre-Modern Society. Antiquity, Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam. Some Reconsiderations
  • Index

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