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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... possible for us to feel as though we know him almost intimately, from his many orations, writings and hundreds of personal letters which survive. But what do you know about his family? The women of Cicero's household are (being women) ...
... possible, and common, for an individual Roman citizen, man or woman, to transmit citizenship by the act of freeing a slave, for liberty and citizenship went together. Citizens had the right of marriage with other citizens (conubium) ...
... possible to other women and what men thought they might aspire to, within the role of wife and daughter. Some of the more daring deeds of the anonymous woman are paralleled in what Terentia did: she faced violence in 58; she supplied ...
... possible that somewhere on land which belonged to the family there was a fullery (washing new wool and dirty clothes). Ancestors engaged in disreputable trades form an old theme in invective.15 The truth behind this is probably a ...
... possible husband. 25 Let us return to Cicero's other relations in the male line. Cicero's father had a younger brother, Lucius, who went out to Cilicia as an aide to M. Antonius (cos. 99), along with his uncle Gratidius, and had a son ...
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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