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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... expected to be permanently attached to her family of birth. A wife was both semi-attached to her husband and semi-detached from him. There are insuperable difficulties in writing a biography of any individual in the ancient world: the ...
... expected to win wars. They even proposed the enfranchisement of the Italian allies. Civil violence escalated in 133, when a senatorial mob lynched Tiberius Gracchus. Other reformers met a similar fate. Disappointed in their hopes of ...
... expected to be present at wild drinking sessions like the orgy at Lampsacus, but they acted as hostesses and dined out. This was a custom which shocked the Greeks and is defended by Cicero's contemporary Cornelius Nepos: 'what Roman is ...
... expected to be mothers. It is likely that in all periods daughters of senators married younger than the general population.40 Medical opinion favoured marriage soon after menarche, which was thought to occur, for well-nourished upper ...
... expected of women by their families. Apart from Sulpicia, whose work survives, other women wrote letters and memoirs, lost to us, which could be read by Romans who might transmit some of the substance to us, but none are known from the ...
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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