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Roles for Men and Women in Roman Epigraphic Culture and Beyond: Gender, social identity and cultural practice in private Latin inscriptions and the literary record
Peter Keegan
Previous studies of tombstones and inscriptions dedicated to divinities have focused on methods of assigning names in Roman society, the age at marriage and death of demographic populations across the Roman Empire, relations of kinship, marriage, amity and dependence among elite and sub-altern families and communities, and the performance of acts in accordance with traditional forms of belief and custom. The present volume wishes to ask what conclusions can be drawn from the corpus of private Latin inscriptions from Roman Italy about the identity, social condition and cultural activity of men and women participating in the process of epigraphic commemoration and dedication. In particular, this study hopes to demonstrate that women participated as significantly as men in the process in a variety of ways and contexts usually regarded as prominently or exclusively male, and in certain circumstances left behind the trace or residue of a uniquely female perspective on their world.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Inscription and Imagination: Encounters with Difference in Roman Epigraphic Culture
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Chapter 2. Epigraphy and the Symbolic Grammar of Identity
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Chapter 3. Reconstructing Epigraphic Culture in the Roman World
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Chapter 4. Recognitions of Gender and Status in Epigraphic Eulogy
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Chapter 5. Rituals of Life and Death in the Eternal City
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Published: 2014
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407342290 (ebook)
- 9781407312613 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2626