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1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Marriage in ancient Greco-Roman sources and societies / Lena Larsson Lovén -- Creating Roman identity : exemplary marriages, Roman model marriages in the sacral and historical sphere / Katariina Mustakallio -- Les marriages des homme politiques athéniens au Vème siècle : histoire des moeurs et historie du politique selon Plutarque / Pauline Schmitt Pantel -- A philosophical marriage : Porphyry's letter to Marcella / Helène Whittaker -- Betrothal, mid-late childhood and teh life course / Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence -- Marriage contracts in the Roman Empire / Judith Evans-Grubbs -- The veil and other textiles at weddings in ancient Greece / Beate Wagner-Hasel -- The woolworker bride / Karen K. Hersch -- The Roman wedding and the household gods : the genius and the lares and their different roles in the rituals of marriage / Linnéa Johansson -- Commemoration of married couples in Etruria : images and inscriptions / Marjatta Nielsen -- Marriage, ideology and status in Tothenmahl : scenes from Kyzikos / Sandra Karlsson -- Viewer, I married him : marriage and the freedwoman in Rome / Glenys Davies -- Coniugal Concordia : marriage and marital ideals on Roman funerary monuments / Lena Larsson Lovén |
| Summary |
The papers in this volume were among the contributions presented at an international symposium, Ancient Marriage in Myth and Reality, which was held at the Swedish Institute in Rome in October 2006. The symposium was held under the aegis of ARACHNE-the Nordic network for women's history and gender studies in Antiquity. The study of ancient marriage has been largely the province of historians working Other texts, and the result of this was an emphasis on elite marriages discussed by the male w .. |
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Conference proceedings |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Marriage -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
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Marriage -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources -- Congresses
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Marriage in literature -- Congresses
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History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE.
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Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
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Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
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Marriage
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Marriage in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Larsson Lovén, Lena
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Strömberg, Agneta
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| ISBN |
9781443822978 |
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1443822973 |
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