Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author?s own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author?s compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome. Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes: a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism three third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform an empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy. Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women?s studies.
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9786611158392, 9781281158390, 9781134131808, 9781134131853, 9781134131846, 9780203967072, 6611158391, 1281158399, 1134131801, 1134131852, 1134131844, 0203967070, 9780415408974, 9780415408981, 0415408970, 0415408989
Great Women of Imperial Rome Ebook
Mothers and Wives of the Caesars
By: Jasper Burns
Publisher:
Routledge
Print ISBN: 9780415408974, 0415408970
eText ISBN: 9781134131846, 1134131844
Edition: 1st
Pages: 376
Copyright year: 2007
Format: EPUB
Available from $ 24.38 USD
SKU: 9781134131846R90
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