Reading Roman WomenBloomsbury Academic, 21. 6. 2001 - 272 strán (strany) Roman women were either luxurious sluts or domestic paragons - at least according to the elite men who wrote Roman history and poetry. These authors, preoccupied with masculine pursuits, introduced women into their works to make a moral point. Even Roman tombstones and the law showcase feminine virtues and reflect biases about "female nature". We also have our own prejudices about ancient Rome and Roman women. Derived from film, television and sensational novels, these prejudices affect the way we "read" the ancient material. So how do we retrieve the lives of "real women"? |
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... eye to immediate profit ( shades of Cato the Elder ! ) . She owned woodlands and leased public land , probably for pasturage.30 Varro's aunt had a small farm near Rome which catered to a specialist market.31 The assumption behind these ...
... eyes ( ' as many as three hundred thousand times , nor shall I ever feel I have had enough ... ' ) . 29. On Iuventius , see 24 , 48 , 81 , 99. Compare 55 and 58b on Camerius . And see Williams 1968 : 549-57 . 30. See above for Syndikus ...
... eyes of two 19th century scholars ' in Larsson Lovén & Strömberg 1998 : 169-82 . Skydsgaard , J.-E. 1976 " The disintegration of the Roman labour market and the clientela theory ' , Studia Romana in Honorem Petri Krarup Septuagenarii ...