War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Evans, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041573990X ISBN 13: 9780415739900

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall.

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041573990X
• ISBN 13: 9780415739900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272