Imperial women : : a study in public images, 40 B.C.-A.D. 68 / / by Susan E. Wood.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 194
• Author: Wood, Susan 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 194.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (501 pages).

From the end of the Roman Republic to the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, portraits of women - on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects - became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the empire. These women usually represented the distinguished bloodlines of the head of the state, or his hopes for succession, but in every case, their images were freighted with political significance. These objects also communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This volume traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented in propria persona on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Susan E. Wood -- Introduction / Susan E. Wood -- Octavia Minor and Julia F. Augusti / Susan E. Wood -- Livia / Susan E. Wood -- Antonia Minor / Susan E. Wood -- Vipsania Agrippina and Livilla I, the Women of the Family of Tiberius / Susan E. Wood -- Agrippina I and her Daughters: the Family of Germanicus / Susan E. Wood -- Messalina, Agrippina II, Claudia Octavia, Poppaea: the Wives of Claudius and Nero / Susan E. Wood -- Conclusions / Susan E. Wood -- Genealogy and Nomenclature / Susan E. Wood -- Abbreviations / Susan E. Wood -- Bibliography / Susan E. Wood -- Index / Susan E. Wood -- List of Illustrations and Photo Credits / Susan E. Wood -- Illustrations / Susan E. Wood.