Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family by Judith P. Hallett

Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family

Judith P. Hallett

362 pages • first pub 1984 (editions) user-added

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Judith Hallett illuminates a paradox of elite Roman society of the classical period: its members extolled female domesticity and imposed numerous formal constraints on women's public activity, but many women in Rome's leading families wielded subs...

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