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Author Milnor, Kristina, author.

Title Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life / Kristina Milnor.

Publication Info. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 360 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory
Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and indexes.
Contents Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine -- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Women, history, and the law -- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire -- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house -- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule.
Summary In the early Roman Empire, women's domestic roles were given new public prominence. Through an examination of early imperial representations of women's activities and responsibilities within the household, Kristina Milnor argues that this emphasis on private morality is actually a new way of understanding the nature of political life. 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.
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Subject Women -- Rome -- Social conditions.
Women -- History -- To 500.
Women.
History.
Chronological Term To 500
Subject Rome -- Social life and customs.
Rome (Empire)
Manners and customs.
Sex role -- Rome.
Households -- Rome.
Rome -- History -- Augustus, 30 B.C.-14 A.D.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Added Title Inventing private life
Other Form: Print version: Milnor, Kristina. Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0199280827 (DLC) 2006295613 (OCoLC)61129171
ISBN 9780191515644 (electronic book)
0191515647 (electronic book)
0199280827
Standard No. 9780199280827