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Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family
By (Author) Judith P. Hallett
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
305.42094563
Hardback
444
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
794g
Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded substantial political and social influence. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library us