Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18011-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

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. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rantala, Jussi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).