By Ariadne Staples
ISBN-10: 0415132339
ISBN-13: 9780415132336
ISBN-10: 0415518946
ISBN-13: 9780415518949
Ariadne Staples' e-book examines how ladies in Rome have been perceived either via themselves and via males via women's participation in Roman faith, as Roman non secular ritual supplied the one public area the place ladies performed an important formal function. From sturdy Goddess to Vestal Virgins argues that the ritual roles performed out through girls have been very important in defining them sexually and that those sexually outlined different types spilled over into different elements of Roman tradition, together with political activity.
Ariadne Staples offers an arresting and unique research of the position of ladies in Roman society, which demanding situations characteristically held perspectives and provokes extra questions.
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