Women in Ancient Rome by Paul Chrystal
The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the world's most dynamic, successful superpower civilisations and illuminates a considerable number of admirable, exciting, evil, slatternly and dangerous women fighting to be heard and seen against insurmountable odds in a world run by men for men.'Silent' is a word that is sometimes used to describe these women, because of the paucity of their own first-hand evidence for their lives; 'silent' can also be used to describe how the typical Roman male liked his women. Some women, though, broke that silence and forged an identity of their own in a largely suspicious, paranoid, patronising and critical world.It is those women whom we meet in this intriguing book. Paul Chrystal examines aspects of the Roman woman's lifestyle and her evolving role in the family. We meet the assertive, brave, pernicious and outrageous women in the public arena; we learn about women's education and of artistic, cultured women; we meet women soothsayers, witches and ghosts; we examine the role of women in religion and in the mystery cults. We learn of women as health professionals; women's medicine; women's sexuality; woman as mistress, prostitute and pimp.
‘Chrystal combs through ancient literature, and archaeological evidence, to throw light on the lives of ordinary women’ * The Good Book Guide *
‘This is an impressive piece of work, not least because of the wealth of evidence and the number of references to ancient sources.’ * Dr Stanley Ireland, University of Warwick *
‘This is an impressive piece of work, not least because of the wealth of evidence and the number of references to ancient sources.’ * Dr Stanley Ireland, University of Warwick *
Paul Chrystal was educated at the Universities of Hull and Southampton where he took degrees in Classics and wrote his MPhil thesis on attitudes to women in Roman love poetry. He appears regularly on BBC local radio the World Service as well as publishing features for national newspapers and history magazines. He has been history advisor for a number of York tourist attractions and is the author of many books on a wide range of subjects, including histories of northern places focussing on Yorkshire, social histories of tea, chocolate and confectionery and various aspects of classical literature and Roman history. Paul lives near York and is married with three grown up children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781445643762 |
| ISBN 10 | 1445643766 |
| Title | Women in Ancient Rome |
| Author | Paul Chrystal |
| Series | Women In |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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