Gender in ancient Rome

New directions and voices

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https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-11

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R. Ancona & G. Tsouvala, eds., New directions in the study of women in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: Oxford University Press 2021. xvi + 278 pp., 11 figs, 8 colour pls. ISBN 9780190937638. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190937638.001.0001

B. Longfellow & M. Swetnam-Burland, eds., Women’s lives, women’s voices. Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples, Austin: University of Texas Press 2021. 408 pp., 76 figs, 16 colour pls. ISBN 9781477323588. https://doi.org/10.7560/323588

F. Rohr Vio, Powerful matrons. New political actors in the Late Roman Republic, Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza 2022. 236 pp. ISBN 9788413404523

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2023-11-06

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Brännstedt, L., & Webb, L. (2023). Gender in ancient Rome: New directions and voices. Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 16, 249–255. https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16-11

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