Women in ancient Rome : a sourcebook /: a sourcebook. (2013 copyright 2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bonnie MacLachlan.
• Authors: MacLachlan, Bonnie
• Contents: Introduction -- Abbreviations for works cited -- Part 1: Rome's Beginnings: -- Women and the legendary past -- Women and the early kings -- Tarquins -- Etruscan women -- Part 2: Early And Middle Republic: -- Early laws and women: the Twelve Tables -- Courageous women of the Early Republic -- Women and religious life -- Gender tensions -- Punic Wars -- Women and property -- Women of the upper and lower classes -- Women in Roman comedy -- Part 3: Late Republic: -- Women and powerful men -- Some remarkable Roman women of the Late Republic -- Weddings -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Agricultural workers -- Part 4: Julio-Claudian Period: -- Augustan marriage legislation -- Women of the imperial households -- Latin elegiac poets -- Women in the inscriptional record -- Housekeeper of the villa -- Religion and magic -- Part 5: Later Empire: -- Women of the imperial households -- Women throughout the empire -- Wealthy women -- Lower-class women -- Female body -- Adultery and prostitution -- Religion -- General bibliography -- Index of ancient authors and texts -- General index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 305.409456/32; History -- Ancient -- General; Women -- Rome -- Social conditions; Women -- Rome -- Social conditions -- Sources; Civilization; Women -- Social conditions; Classical history / classical civilisation; Rome -- Civilization; Rome (Empire); Sources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441142429; 1441142428
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.