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"I Claudia is the first comprehensive study of the lives of Roman women as revealed in Roman visual culture, including porotraits, reliefs, wall paintings, architecture, and decorative arts. Seven essays discuss gender theory, portraits of empresses and princesses, the portrayal of women as goddesses in Roman art, and women's roles in society, in the home, in Latin literature, and as patrons of the arts." From the bookjacket.
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"Clodia, (born Claudia Pulchra Prima or Maior or also Quadrantaria c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Clodia the wife of Metellus"), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica. She is not to be confused with her niece, Clodia Pulchra, who was briefly married to Octavian. Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and...
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The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on "traditional" feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of texts and their contexts in order to explore this paradox. Through an examination of authors such as Vitruvius, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Seneca the Elder,...
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