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28%OFFAnnelise Freisenbruch - The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars - 9780099523932 - V9780099523932
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The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars

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Description for The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars Paperback. Using a spectrum of literary, artistic, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this book uncovers the kaleidoscopic story of some of the most intriguing women in history, and the complex role of the empresses as political players on Rome's great stage. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD1; HBLA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.

Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers. But the women proved to be liabilities as well as assets - Augustus' daughter Julia was accused of affairs with at least five men, Claudius' wife Messalina was a murderous tease who cuckolded and humiliated her elderly husband, while Fausta tried to seduce her own stepson and engineered his execution before boiled to death as a punishment.

In The First Ladies of Rome Annelise Freisenbruch unveils the characters whose identities were to ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523932
SKU
V9780099523932
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About Annelise Freisenbruch
Annelise Freisenbruch was born in 1977 in Paget, Bermuda, and moved to the UK at the age of eight. She studied classics to postgraduate level at Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving a PhD in 2004. For five of the last ten years, she has taught classics at The Leys School in Cambridge. During that time, she has also worked as a ... Read more

Reviews for The First Ladies of Rome: The Women Behind the Caesars
What a great idea for a book this is - what a record of filial loathing, sexual scheming, parental neglect, suicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, incest and abuse... The result is a book both scholarly and racy... She has produced a book to be commended: one that restores to life some of the toughest, most colourful and most bizarre women ... Read more

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