A Rome of Ones Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire Southon Emma
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the…
Specifikacia A Rome of Ones Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire Southon Emma
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient worldThe history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "the Doing of Important Things." It is a history of winning battles, passing laws, and "Having Important Opinions in Public." And as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through "the political stab-fest of the late Republic," and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things get when women get out of control, but history is more than that.Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own will correct that. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with the Important
Glory of the Roman Empire
Wood of Ones Own
Room of Ones Own
Rogue of Ones Own