Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life (Oxford Studies In Classical Literature And Gender Theory).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The age of Augustus has long been understood as a time of imposed social conservatism, when the Roman state sought in the restoration of �traditional� values a healing balm for the wounds of a society torn apart by civil war. This moral rebuilding included as one of its most important aspects an emphasis on ideals of female domesticity, on the necessity for women to return to the private sphere and reclaim their status as the primary caretakers of the Roman home. At the same time, however, early imperial culture also embraced numerous public representations of that private sphere, so that women in their roles as mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters came to have a significant presence in political discourse. Kristina Milnor explores the causes and consequences of this paradox, through an examination of both the history of the time and the ways in which it comes to be represented in early imperial literature. She argues that the much publicized �return to the traditional home� under the first emperors was less a matter of changing the ways in which individuals actually lived their lives than of changing the ways in which the. private sphere was understood as part of Roman society. The numerous textual representations of domestic life which survive from the early years of the Roman Empire both reflect and respond to this change. This study takes up a series of particular texts and their contexts�from Vitruvius� De architectura to Seneca the Elder�s Controversiae and Suasoriae to Columella�s De re rustica�in order to explore both how and why female domesticity became one of the most prominent metaphors for talking about Roman society under the Julio-Claudian emperors. ISBN 9780199280827