Brenda Longfellow, "Women's Lives, Women's Voices: Roman Material Culture and Female Agency in the Bay of Naples"
English | ISBN: 1477323589 | 2021 | 408 pages | PDF | 54 MB
English | ISBN: 1477323589 | 2021 | 408 pages | PDF | 54 MB
Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius.
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