Imperial Women

by Wood, Susan E.

• ISBN13: 9789004119505
• ISBN10: 9004119507
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Portraits of women -- on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects --became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the Roman Empire. These portraits, always freighted with political significance, communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women.This book traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(26)
Octavia Minor and Julia F. Augusti	27	(48)
Livia	75	(67)
Antonia Minor	142	(35)
Vipsania Agrippina and Livilla I, the Women of the Family of Tiberius	177	(26)
Agrippina I and her Daughters: the Family of Germanicus	203	(46)
Messalina, Agrippina II, Claudia Octavia, Poppaea: the Wives of Claudius and Nero	249	(66)
Conclusions	315	(16)
Appendix: Genealogy and Nomenclature	320	(11)
Abbreviations	331	(2)
Bibliography	333	(29)
Index
Proper Names of Persons and Deities	347	(6)
Geographical Names and Ancient Provenances	353	(1)
Museums, Monuments and Modern Locations	354	(2)
General Index	356	(6)
List of Illustrations and Photo Credits	362