Livy's Women

Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History

Peter Keegan

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Routledge
31 May 2023

History: theory & methods; European history; Classical history & classical civilisation

Livy’s Women explores the profound questions arising from the presence of women of influence and power in the socio-political canvas of one of the most important histories of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita (From the Foundation of the City).

This theoretically informed study of Livy’s monumental narrative charts the fascinating links between episodes containing references to women in prominent roles and the historian’s treatment of Rome’s evolutionary foundation story. Explicitly gendered in relation to the socio-cultural contexts informing the narrative, the author’s background, the literary landscape of Livy's Rome, and the subsequent historiographical commentary, this volume offers a comprehensive, coherent and contextualised overview of all episodes in Ab Urbe Condita relating to women as agents of historical change.

As well as proving invaluable insights into socio-cultural history for Classicists, Livy’s Women will also be of interest to instructors, researchers, and students of female representation in history in general.

By: Peter Keegan
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367706906
ISBN 10: 0367706903
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Tables; Foreword: Setting the Scene; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: AUC history: women and the art of exemplary storytelling; Chapter Two: Gendered collectives in Livy: the agmen mulierum and independent female demonstrations in AUC history; Chapter Three: The rhetoric of the unfamiliar other: non-Roman women in AUC history; Chapter Four: Topoi, tropes and the female: the rhetorical memory of the annalist tradition; Afterword: Final Observations; Bibliography; Index

Peter Keegan is a Professor in Roman History at Macquarie University, Australia. His research ranges from sexuality and body history to the spatial dynamics of social relations in urban and periurban contexts and the epigraphy of ephemeral graffiti and death. His recent publications include Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World, Graffiti in Antiquity, Roles for Women and Men in Roman Epigraphic Culture, and Written Space in the Latin West 200 BC-AD 300. He has also contributed a range of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on the subject of gendered discourse in historical and sub-literary texts.

Reviews for Livy's Women: Crisis, Resolution, and the Female in Rome's Foundation History

K.'s book is essential for students and scholars interested in the study and narrative composition of the end of the Republic. It is an exhaustive and rigorous work on Livy's literary expertise and his practical incorporation of women as relevant actors at crucial moments in the history of Rome. - The Classical Review