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Book Sources and Web Resources
on Women in Ancient Rome
The topic "Women in Ancient
Rome" attracts all sorts of people --those interested in art, archeology,
women's rights, beauty, love and marriage, scandals
and politics, love affairs and divorce, motherhood
and children, and more. Here
are some of the many resources on the Web and
sources in books and journals.
Books:
Ancient sources
No
memoirs or histories written by women exist. There
are fragments available, in English translation, in
Mary Lefkowitz'
Womens' Life
in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
(2005). Most of what we
know comes from male
writers of ancient Roman and Greek. Many were hostile toward women who showed
independence in thought or action.
Art and archeology provide
additional sources. Always keep in mind that images
may be "idealized" as forever-young, or rely on
Greek standards of beauty in art, or have a
political agenda.
Modern sources, for the general
American reader
D'Ambra, Eve,
Roman Women ( 2007) Art
history. Prof. D'Ambra's book includes especially interesting photos of artifacts about women who were
outside the social elite.
Dennison, Matthew,
Livia, Empress
of Rome (2010). Mr. Dennison is a journalist
and writes in a lively style.
Fantham, Elaine,
Julia Augusti,
the Emperor's Daughter
(2006)
Fraschetti, Augusto, ed.,
Roman
Women, 1993. Translated from the Italian by
Linda Lappin, 2001)
Levick, Barbara,
Julia
Domna, Syrian Empress
(2007)
Matyszak, Philip,
Ancient Rome
of 5 Denarii a Day
(2009)
McCullough, Colleen,
Caesar's Women. One of the spicy
novelist's seven works of fiction about Rome.
Pomeroy, Sarah,
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in
Classical Antiquity
(1975, 1995)
Modern sources, for advanced
readers
Barrett, Andrea,
Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome.
Yale, 2004. and
Agrippina:
Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire.
Yale.
Bartman, E.,
Portraits of
Livia: Imagining the Imperial Woman in Augustan
Rome.
Cambridge, 1999
Dixon, Suzanne,
Reading
Roman Women: Sources, Genres and Real Life.
U of Virgina, 2001, and
Cornelia,
Mother of the Gracchi,
2007.
Fantham, Elaine,
Julia Augusti:
The Emperor's Daughter.
New York, 2006.
Flemming, Rebecca,
Medicine and the Making of Roman Women.
Oxford UP, 2000.
Gardner, Jane,
Women in Roman Law and Society. Indiana UP,
1986. Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2009.
Hemelrijk, Emily,
Matrona Docta:
Educated Women in
the Roman Elite. Routledge, 1999.
Kleiner, Diana and Susan
Matheson, eds. I, Claudia: Women in Ancient
Rome. (2 vols) U. of Texas, 1996, 2000. Art
History.
Purcell, Nicolas, "Livia and the Womanhood of Rome,"
in Jonathan Edmondson, ed.,
Augustus.
Edinburgh, 2009.
Rawson, Beryl, various
books on the Roman family, children, and childhood.,
1987-2003.
Saller, Richard,
Patriarchy,
Property, and
Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge UP,
1994.
Treggiari, Susan,
Roman Marriage. Oxford UP, 1991, and
Terentia, Tullia, and Publilia: The Women of
Cicero's Family. Routledge, 2007.
Web sites
VRoma:
http://www.vroma.org/~riley/matron/portrait_links.html
Livius:
http://www.livius.org/rome.html
James C. Thompson:
http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/roman_women_01.shtml
written by Suzanne Dixon
The major museums
all have
splendid Web sites, as does Wikipedia. |
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Updated
21-July-2016. You may contact me, Nancy Padgett, at
NJPadgett@gmail.com
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