Autorentext

Jussi Rantala (PhD) is a researcher at the University of Tampere. His publications include >The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus. The Ideologies of a New Roman Empire> (Routledge 2017).

Klappentext

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome

Inhalt

List of Illustrations, Abbreviations, Preface, Tabula Gratulatoria, Introduction, 1 Public Agency of Women in the Later Roman World, 2 Religious Agency and Civic Identity of Women in Ancient Ostia, 3 The Invisible Women of Roman Agrarian Work and Economy, 4 'Show them that You are Marcus's Daughter': The Public Role of Imperial Daughters in Second- and Third-Century CE Rome, 5 Defining Manliness, Constructing Identities: Alexander the Great mirroring an Exemplary Man in Late Antiquity, 6 'At the Age of Nineteen' (RG 1, 7 Conflict and Community, 8 Dress, Identity, Cultural Memory, 9 The Goddess and the Town, 10 Varius, multiplex, multiformis - Greek, Roman, Panhellenic, 11 Mental Hospitals in Pre-Modern Society, Index