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Turia
A Roman Woman's Civil War
Taschenbuch von Josiah Osgood
Sprache: Englisch

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The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, mansions were besieged in the city, and bounty-hunters searched the streets for "public enemies." Among the astonishing stories to survive from these years is that of a young woman whose parents were killed, on the eve of her wedding, in the violence engulfing Italy in the late first century BC. While her future husband fought overseas, she staved off a run on her father's estate and raised money to help her fiance in exile. Further, when her husband, back in Rome, was declared an outlaw, she successfully hid him, worked for his pardon, and joined other Roman women in staging a public protest. The wife's tale is known only because her husband had inscribed on large slabs of marble the elaborate eulogy he gave at her funeral. In this book, Josiah Osgood reconstructs the life of Turia, as the wife is commonly known, more fully than it has been before by bringing in alongside the eulogy stories of other Roman women who also contributed to their families' survival while working to end civil war. He shows how the wife's story sheds rare light on the more hidden problems of everyday life for Romans, including a high number of childless marriages. This unique narrative is more than a biography of one woman: it is a portrait of a vivid period in Roman history and a tribute to married love which though from another world speaks to us today.

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The civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, mansions were besieged in the city, and bounty-hunters searched the streets for "public enemies." Among the astonishing stories to survive from these years is that of a young woman whose parents were killed, on the eve of her wedding, in the violence engulfing Italy in the late first century BC. While her future husband fought overseas, she staved off a run on her father's estate and raised money to help her fiance in exile. Further, when her husband, back in Rome, was declared an outlaw, she successfully hid him, worked for his pardon, and joined other Roman women in staging a public protest. The wife's tale is known only because her husband had inscribed on large slabs of marble the elaborate eulogy he gave at her funeral. In this book, Josiah Osgood reconstructs the life of Turia, as the wife is commonly known, more fully than it has been before by bringing in alongside the eulogy stories of other Roman women who also contributed to their families' survival while working to end civil war. He shows how the wife's story sheds rare light on the more hidden problems of everyday life for Romans, including a high number of childless marriages. This unique narrative is more than a biography of one woman: it is a portrait of a vivid period in Roman history and a tribute to married love which though from another world speaks to us today.

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Über den Autor
Josiah Osgood is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. He is the author of Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006) and Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (2011). Professor Osgood held a Rome Prize fellowship and returns to Rome to study each year.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • List of Illustrations, Tables, and Map

  • Prologue

  • 1 Father's Death

  • 2 The Fiancé

  • 3 At the Tribunal of Lepidus

  • 4 Children Hoped-for

  • 5 Preparing for Death

  • 6 Between the Torches

  • 7 Missing Pieces, Other Pieces

  • 8 The Monument Itself

  • Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Chronology

  • Appendix 2: Reading Text and Translation

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199832354
ISBN-10: 0199832358
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Osgood, Josiah
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Josiah Osgood
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2014
Gewicht: 0,402 kg
Artikel-ID: 120667096
Über den Autor
Josiah Osgood is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University. He is the author of Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006) and Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (2011). Professor Osgood held a Rome Prize fellowship and returns to Rome to study each year.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgments

  • List of Illustrations, Tables, and Map

  • Prologue

  • 1 Father's Death

  • 2 The Fiancé

  • 3 At the Tribunal of Lepidus

  • 4 Children Hoped-for

  • 5 Preparing for Death

  • 6 Between the Torches

  • 7 Missing Pieces, Other Pieces

  • 8 The Monument Itself

  • Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Chronology

  • Appendix 2: Reading Text and Translation

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199832354
ISBN-10: 0199832358
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Osgood, Josiah
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Josiah Osgood
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2014
Gewicht: 0,402 kg
Artikel-ID: 120667096
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