Women in Fragments
Alternative Histories of the Roman Republic
$196.35
- Hardcover
218 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
Our sources of knowledge about women in the ancient Roman Republic are flawed. Roman historians were uniformly male, as were most historians of ancient Rome until quite recently. In the historiography handed down by Enlightenment-era scholars, women generally played marginal and often sexualized roles, relegated to the footnotes by historians who assumed the Roman Republic to be fully androcentric. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise. In this detailed and insightful volume, Jessica H. C…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780299357801 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0299357805 |
| Author: | Jessica H. Clark |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Imprint: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 218 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“A clear-eyed yet optimistic assessment of our extant, mostly fragmentary, historical sources on women in the Roman Republic that offers compelling evidence for women’s integration within the Roman civic body. A must-read for all of us who teach Roman political history as though only men made it.” - Alison Keith, author of Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic
“Imaginatively explores the evolving representations of women within the Roman Republican historiographical tradition. Clark vividly conveys how male authors mold and remold images of women to meet evolving political needs.” - Matthew Roller, author of Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla
About The Author
Jessica H. Clark
Jessica H. Clark is a professor in the Department of Classics at Florida State University. She is the author of Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic and coeditor of Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society.
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