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Product Description: The Roman Mother, first published in 1988, traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins, examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood. The importance of the paterfamilias with his wide-ranging legal rights and obligations is familiar, but much less attention has been devoted to the equally interesting position and duties of mothers and the particular limitations on their actions...read more
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9780415745116 | Routledge, November 4, 2013, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: The Roman Mother, first published in 1988, traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins, examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood.
9780806121253 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $50.00
Paperback:
9780415745130 | Routledge, June 10, 2015, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: The Roman Mother, first published in 1988, traces the traditional Roman attitude towards mothers to its republican origins, examining the diverse roles and the relative power and influence associated with motherhood.
Product Description: It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An international collection of expert contributors go beyond the usual canon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law, as well as Christian and dream-interpretation literature...read more
Hardcover:
9780415235785 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $145.00
Paperback:
9780415692533 | Routledge, December 22, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men.
Miscellaneous:
9780203996034 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $138.00
Product Description: Examining the remarkable life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue, fidelity and intelligence, Suzanne Dixon presents an in-depth study of the woman who perhaps represented the ideal of the Roman matrona more than any other...read more
Hardcover:
9780415331470 | 1 edition (Routledge, July 11, 2007), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Examining the remarkable life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue, fidelity and intelligence, Suzanne Dixon presents an in-depth study of the woman who perhaps represented the ideal of the Roman matrona more than any other.
Paperback:
9780415331487 | 1 edition (Routledge, July 11, 2007), cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Examining the remarkable life of Cornelia, famed as the epitome of virtue, fidelity and intelligence, Suzanne Dixon presents an in-depth study of the woman who perhaps represented the ideal of the Roman matrona more than any other.
Miscellaneous:
9780203392430 | Routledge, May 18, 2007, cover price $37.95
Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780715629819 | Bristol Classical Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Roman women were either luxurious sluts or domestic paragons - at least according to the elite men who wrote Roman history and poetry.
Product Description: Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past? Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the family against a broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome...read more
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9780801841996 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family.
Paperback:
9780801842009 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family.
Product Description: How have women, at different times and in different places, been perceived when they cross the sharp boundaries between public and private realms? This broad-ranging study, edited by professors Garlick, Dixon, and Allen, points to enduring themes about women who acquire political power and/or become public figures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780313277313 | Praeger Pub Text, January 30, 1992, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: How have women, at different times and in different places, been perceived when they cross the sharp boundaries between public and private realms?
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