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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... wrote of them. They are, however, the only Roman women of the classical period adequately documented by private letters. Publilia is known through the same writer, Cicero, and a handful of other references. The evidence is not ...
... wrote of the late second century: 'At that time, the plebs bestowed the other offices, but the nobility passed the consulship from hand to hand. Any new man, however distinguished he might be ..., was held unworthy of this honour and ...
... 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 period of Terentia and Tullia. The three women who are the subject of this book are ...
... wrote an epic called Marius. The memory of Marius was potent with the common people: Cicero was often to appeal to his exile and restoration as a partial precedent for his own. In a speech to the People, he claimed that he had seen the ...
... wrote on religious holidays and days when the games were held, so that I should never have any leisure at all. For I always thought what M. Cato wrote at the beginning of his Origins was a noble sentiment: 'great and famous men must ...
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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