War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)

War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN-10
1317810295
ISBN-13
9781317810292
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2014-02-04
Publisher
Routledge
Author
John K. Evans

Description

J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

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