Livy's Women : Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History /: Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History. (2021)
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- Title:
- Livy's Women : Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History /: Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Livy's Women : Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History
- Further Information:
- Note: Peter Keegan.
- Authors:
- Keegan, Peter
- Contents:
- List of Tables Foreword: Setting the Scene Acknowledgements Chapter One: AUC history: women and the art of exemplary storytelling 1. Res Novae and Mores Maiorum : exempli documenta, haec tempora and the resonances of change 2. The Rape of Lucretia: gender, crisis and the res publica 3. Egeria, Carmenta and the Vestal priestesses: exempla and the male imagination 4. Damarata, Harmonia and Heraclia: Livy’s assignation of moral weight 5. Conclusion Chapter Two: Gendered collectives in Livy: the agmen mulierum and independent female demonstrations in AUC history 1. Hortensia, the demonstration of 43 BCE, and the extent of matronal authority in Roman public life and patriarchal culture 2. The Sabine Women: defenders of the patriarchal order? 3. Veturia and Volumnia: reconstructing a tradition 4. Cato and the frequentia mulierum : a crux of social legislation 5. Conclusion Chapter Three: The rhetoric of the unfamiliar other: non-Roman women in AUC history 1. Stereotypes and Personae: representing non-Roman female identity 2. The Bacchanalia: a fictive history or historical romance of gender relations? 3. From Hersilia to Theoxena: mirrors of male reality? 4. Conclusion Chapter Four: Topoi, tropes and the female: the rhetorical memory of the annalist tradition 1. The Commonplace Topics of Gendered AUC History 2. Fakes, Forgeries, and Historical Fiction in the Ab Urbe Condita : the authenticity of gendered historiography 3. Conclusion Afterword: Final Observations BibliographyList of Tables Foreword: Setting the Scene Acknowledgements Chapter One: AUC history: women and the art of exemplary storytelling 1. Res Novae and Mores Maiorum : exempli documenta, haec tempora and the resonances of change 2. The Rape of Lucretia: gender, crisis and the res publica 3. Egeria, Carmenta and the Vestal priestesses: exempla and the male imagination 4. Damarata, Harmonia and Heraclia: Livy’s assignation of moral weight 5. Conclusion Chapter Two: Gendered collectives in Livy: the agmen mulierum and independent female demonstrations in AUC history 1. Hortensia, the demonstration of 43 BCE, and the extent of matronal authority in Roman public life and patriarchal culture 2. The Sabine Women: defenders of the patriarchal order? 3. Veturia and Volumnia: reconstructing a tradition 4. Cato and the frequentia mulierum : a crux of social legislation 5. Conclusion Chapter Three: The rhetoric of the unfamiliar other: non-Roman women in AUC history 1. Stereotypes and Personae: representing non-Roman female identity 2. The Bacchanalia: a fictive history or historical romance of gender relations? 3. From Hersilia to Theoxena: mirrors of male reality? 4. Conclusion Chapter Four: Topoi, tropes and the female: the rhetorical memory of the annalist tradition 1. The Commonplace Topics of Gendered AUC History 2. Fakes, Forgeries, and Historical Fiction in the Ab Urbe Condita : the authenticity of gendered historiography 3. Conclusion Afterword: Final Observations Bibliography Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (254 pages), (11 illustrations)
- Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781351373357
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