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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empiredi Emma Southon
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The subject of this book--women in ancient Rome had important stories to tell--is compelling, but the writing style is terrible. The author (mis-)uses forced humor and overfamiliar language in a failed attempt to sound edgy. The final product reads like a series of unedited blog posts rather than a book that would have any lasting value. I had read the author's previous book and found similar style problems, but not to the extent that this latest book contains. I plan to read no other books by this author. Not recommended. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient world. The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "The Doing of Important Things," 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 become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma Southon's A Rome of One's Own is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background, or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of women who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry; who lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. Told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, A Rome of One's Own highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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As Southon reminds us, women had an important role in Roman society, which was very family oriented indeed -- extended families were also political clans. But much of what we know about women in antiquity was written by men, and some of them, such as Juvenalis or Tacitus, wrote with undisguised misogyny. (Juvenalis’ notorious sixth satire is at least good satire in the sense that you cannot know whether the author intends his furious rant to be taken seriously or not.)
This book gives a wider and more honest perspective. Some of the women in this book are only known by what men wrote about them. (In one case, a lengthy eulogy by a bereaved husband.) But Southon also chose many women who wrote themselves and whose words have survived through the ages, a dismally small group. In letters, poetry, inscriptions and edicts, they make themselves heard. They are not always very sympathetic, and Southon is particularly snarky about the weird attitudes of some Christian saints. Maybe they didn’t all write well. But they lived, their often struggled bravely in their adversity, and they wrote. It is good that we can still hear their story. ( )