From Good Goddess to vestal virgins : sex and category in Roman religion / Ariadne Staples.

The role of women in Roman culture and society was a paradoxical one. On the one hand they enjoyed social, material and financial independence and on the other hand they were denied basic constitutional rights. Roman history is not short of powerful female figures, such as Agrippina and Livia, yet t...

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Main Author: Staples, Ariadne, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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