Turia: a Roman woman's Civil War

by Osgood, Josiah

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Full title :Turia : a Roman woman's Civil War / Josiah Osgood.

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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 fathers 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 wifes 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 wifes 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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xvi, 215 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781306861922, 1306861926
oclc:ocn934506327
LC Classification:DG266
Dewey Decimal:937/.05092

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.

Subjects

510-30 B.C Biographies e-books Femmes -- Biographies. -- Rome Femmes -- Histoire. -- Rome Femmes et guerre -- Histoire. -- Rome Femmes mariées -- Biographies. -- Rome Guerre et société -- Histoire. -- Rome History Laudatio Turiae Livres numériques Mariage -- Aspect social -- Rome Marriage -- Social aspects Marriage -- Social aspects -- Rome Rome -- Biographies. -- Histoire -- 49-… Rome -- Biography. -- History -- Civil … Rome -- Conditions sociales -- 510-30 a… Rome -- Social conditions -- 510-30 B.C Rome (Empire) Social conditions