Boekhandel Douwes Den Haag

Women in Antiquity

Sabina Augusta

An Imperial Journey

Brennan, T. Corey (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick)

Sabina Augusta

Women in Antiquity

Sabina Augusta

An Imperial Journey

Women in Antiquity: Sabina Augusta

 

Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations.


Leverbaar

€ 41,30

Levertijd: 5 tot 10 werkdagen


Beschrijving Women in Antiquity: Sabina Augusta

Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She was the most travelled and visible empress to date. Hadrian also deified his wife upon her death.

In synthesizing the textual and massive material evidence for the empress, T. Corey Brennan traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations. Furthermore, the book argues that Hadrian meant for Sabina to play a key role in promoting the public character of his rule, and details how the emperor's exaltation of his wife served to enhance his own claims to divinity. Yet the sparse literary sources on Sabina instead put the worst light on the dynamics of her marriage.

Brennan fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in historiography, from antiquity through the modern era; and against the material record proposes a new and nuanced understanding of her formal role. This biographical study sheds new light not just on its subject but also more widely on Hadrian-including the vexed question of that emperor's relationship with his apparent lover Antinoƶs-and indeed Rome's imperial women as a group.


ISBN
9780197551790
Pagina's
328
Verschenen
Serie
Women in Antiquity
NUR
683
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Oudheid (tot 500)