Edited book
Women's lives, women's voices: Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples
University of Texas Press
2021
DOI: 10.7560/323588
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Abstract
"Even though there has been increasing interest in women in antiquity generally and in the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum specifically, much of the textual evidence is silent about them and much of the material culture is gender-neutral, leading to a continued silence about women's lives in this region. Even when women are considered, it tends to be elite women, who are nevertheless often seen through the eyes of their male counterparts. The editors of this volume have gathered together an outstanding collection of scholars to examine both elite and ordinary women's lives on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius devastated the region of Campania in 79 CE. Their goal is to consider how women from a range of social backgrounds engaged with the local community through families, businesses, and religion, and how they expressed their identities in the funerary realm"--
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Women's lives, women's voices: Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples
- Creators
- Brenda LongfellowMolly Swetnam-Burland
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press; Austin, TX
- DOI
- 10.7560/323588
- ISBN
- 9781477323588; 1477323589
- eISBN
- 9781477323595; 1477323597
- Number of pages
- 361 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- University College Courses; Art and Art History
- Record Identifier
- 9984398315402771
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