War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome - Couverture rigide

Evans, John K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 041505723X ISBN 13 : 9780415057233

Editeur : Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Building on a survey of the Roman Republic's rigid patriarchal institutions, this study examines the profound changes in the social, economic and jural conditions of Roman women that necessarily resulted from centuries of near-continuous warfare, while penetrating as well the more subtle influence that warfare exerted on the emotional and legal ties between parent and child. Moving between the rich and the poor, the city and the country, it combines the interests of a new generation of scholars with one of the central issues in Roman history: the domestic consequences of Rome's expansion from the city-state to empire in the last two centuries of the Republic.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall.

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041505723X
• ISBN 13: 9780415057233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible