Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero's FamilyRoutledge, 7 aug 2007 - 256 pagina's Studying references and writings in over 900 personal letters, an unparalleled source, this book presents a rounded and intriguing account of the three women who, until now, have only survived as secondary figures to Cicero. In a field where little is really known about Cicero’s family, Susan Treggiari creates a history for these figures who, through history, have not had voices of their own, and a vivid impression of the everyday life upper-class Roman women in Italy had during the heyday of Roman power. Artfully assembling a rounded picture of their personalities and experiences, Treggiari reconstructs the lives of these three important women:
Including illustrations, chronological charts, maps and glossaries, this book is essential reading for students wishing to get better acquainted with the women of ancient Rome. |
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... Atticus. Anyone in search of further information should usually begin with Shackleton Bailey's commentary on a passage. I refer normally to Shackleton Bailey 1965–70, 1977 (both cited by volume number) and 1980. Readers looking for a ...
The Women of Cicero's Family Susan Treggiari. Abbreviations. A Cicero Letters to Atticus A. Aulus Acad. Cicero Academica Ad Brutum AE Am. Ap. App. BC Cicero Ad Brutum/Letters to Brutus Année Epigraphique Cicero De amicitia/On friendship ...
... Atticus Nonius Marcellus De compendiosa doctrina, ed. Wallace M. Lindsay (Leipzig: Teubner, 1903) Nep. Att. Nonius ns New series OCD3 Off. The Oxford Classical Dictionary3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) Cicero De officiis/On duties ...
... Atticus could claim a social superiority to a senator who traced his origin to an Italian town and whose family had held the citizenship for only a century, such as Cicero: 'Titus Pomponius Atticus, descended as he was from the remotest ...
... Atticus' wife, on one occasion in early summer, borrowed Cicero's country-house (villa) on the Lucrine Lake (the Cumanum), with its servants and stores, for a holiday without her husband and small daughter.17 We hear little of women's ...
Inhoudsopgave
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xxiv | |
the young wife 30 | xlii |
Living through disaster 56 | lxix |
Restoration 71 | lxxxv |
Finding the right man 83 | xcviii |
Public and private quarrels 100 | cxv |
Three divorces a wedding a funeral and a baby 118 | cxxxiv |
Death and survival 143 | clx |
Chronology 165 | clxxxii |
Bibliography 205 | 59 |
Index of persons and Gods 214 | 62 |
General index 223 | 171 |
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