Representing Agrippina
Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire
$157.97
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
5 January 2006
Summary
Agrippina the Younger, wife of the emperor Claudius and mother of his successor Nero, wielded power and authority at the center of the Roman empire in ways unmatched by almost any other woman in Roman history. Such, at least, is the portrait of Agrippina delivered by our sources and perpetuated in modern scholarship.
In this posthumous work, Judith Ginsburg provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Unlike previous treatments, she seeks neith…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780195181418 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0195181417 |
| Author: | Judith Ginsburg |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 5 January 2006 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies |
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Critics Review
There is much to be praised here.
There is much to be praised here. Kristina Milnor, Barnard College [The editors’] decision to publish the text with only the lightest editorial intervention is entirely justified by the quality of Judith Ginsbury’s work. But it is also, in its unfinished state, an affecting memorial to its author, dramatizing in its loose ends the loss of the discipline that her death represents. Llewelyn Morgan, TLS
About The Author
Judith Ginsburg
Judith Ginsburg, 1944-2002, was Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. Eric S. Gruen is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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