This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history ― gender, memory and identity ― and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.
Author(s): Jussi Rantala
Series: Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 328
City: Amsterdam
Cover
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Tabula Gratulatoria
Introduction
Jussi Rantala
1. Public Agency of Women in the Later Roman World
Ville Vuolanto
2. Religious Agency and Civic Identity of Women in Ancient Ostia
Marja-Leena Hänninen
3. The Invisible Women of Roman Agrarian Work and Economy
Lena Larsson Lovén
4. ‘Show them that You are Marcus’s Daughter’
The Public Role of Imperial Daughters in Second- and Third-Century ce Rome
Sanna Joska
5. Defining Manliness, Constructing Identities
Alexander the Great mirroring an Exemplary Man in Late Antiquity*
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen
6. ‘At the Age of Nineteen’ (RG 1)
Life, Longevity, and the Formation of an Augustan Past (43-38 bce)*
Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence
7. Conflict and Community
Anna of Carthage and Roman Identity in Augustan Poetry*
Jussi Rantala
8. Dress, Identity, Cultural Memory
Copa and Ancilla Cauponae in Context
Ria Berg
9. The Goddess and the Town
Memory, Feast, and Identity between Demeter and Saint Lucia
Marxiano Melotti
10. Varius, multiplex, multiformis* – Greek, Roman, Panhellenic
Multiple Identities of the Hadrianic Era and Beyond
Arja Karivieri
11. Mental Hospitals in Pre-Modern Society
Antiquity, Byzantium, Western Europe, and Islam. Some Reconsiderations
Christian Laes
Index
List of Illustrations
Figure 8.1 Woman serving water with two jugs. Pompeii, Caupona in Via di Mercurio, VI 10, 1, room b, north wall
Figure 8.2 1) Pompeii, Caupona in Via di Mercurio, VI 10, 1, room b, N wall; 2) Pompeii, Caupona di Via Mercurio, room b, probably E wall; 3) Pompeii, Caupona in Via di Mercurio, south wall (male waiter?); 4) Pompeii, Caupona di Salvius, VI 14, 35.36, ro
Figure 8.3 Diana dressed in a double-girt chiton
Figure 8.4 Funerary relief of Sentia Amarantis, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Augusta Emerita, inv. CE00676. Late second-third century CE
Figure 8.5 Bronze ring ending in two snake-heads, found in the thermopolium of Felix and Dorus VI 16, 39.40, Pompeii (inv. 55462)
Figure 8.6 1) Bronze bracelet in the form of snake (inv. 12699) and 2) spiral silverring (inv. 12700). Found in the Caupona o
Figure 8.7 1-2) Two faience beads (inv. 56194) and 3) a glass paste bead (inv. 56195) found in the Caupona all’Insegna dell’Africa III 8, 8, Pompeii
