Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415408989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jean-Francois Perreault said A great book, with a sensitive and humanistic approach. This is a great book! I'm amazed by the sensitive and humanistic approach taken by the author to describe the lives of these extraordinary women. He manages to make them even more fascinating to me than they were before I began to read his book. And I really like the "spiritual" twist he's put in the biographical elements of these imperial women. I find that very unique and extremely interesting. The book is also graced by the wonderful and lively drawings depicting the imperial women, made by the author himself!This book d
Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women’s studies.. Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations.Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome.Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes:a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroismthree third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reforman empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy