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'This book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Augustan period, and will appeal to both scholar and lay-reader. The work encourages the adoption of fresh attitudes and sats fresh light on some important historical issues relating to gender studies.' - History and Culture
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This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society.
Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty.
Studying the abundant historical evidence available, this biography studies each stage of Julia’s life in remarkable detail:
- her childhood - taken from her divorced mother to become part of a complex and unstable family structure
- her youth - set against the brilliant social and cultural life of the new Augustan Rome
- her marriages - as tools for Augustus’ plans for succession
- Julia’s violation of her father’s moral regime, and the betrayal of her absent husband.
Reflecting new attitudes, and casting fresh light on their social reality, this outstanding biography will delight, entertain and inform anyone interested in this engaging Classical figure.
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I have been writing a book centered around this amazing historical character and this was just what I needed and wanted. Painting a clear picture of the world that Julia lived in and the people she lived along side, Elaine Fantham has given us an honest and detailed picture of the witty daughter of Augustus Caesar. We learn about her possible upbringing, her mother Scribonia (who has also been given an unfair amount of bad press by history), her friends, her husbands: Marcellus, Agrippa and Tiberius, who became the emperor and may have murdered both Julia and her only living son, Postumus.
There is such depth and detail into the life of this woman that after reading their book it made me love her all the more and gave me a clearer look on not only the life, the homes, the husbands, the children, the lovers and the downfall of Julia Augusti, but other women and other girls who grew up in the tragic world of Ancient Rome. Julia's story is one that every Ancient historian should read about... she truly was an amazing woman in a dangerous society.
Highly recommended for history students, writers and lovers.
There is such depth and detail into the life of this woman that after reading their book it made me love her all the more and gave me a clearer look on not only the life, the homes, the husbands, the children, the lovers and the downfall of Julia Augusti, but other women and other girls who grew up in the tragic world of Ancient Rome. Julia's story is one that every Ancient historian should read about... she truly was an amazing woman in a dangerous society.
Highly recommended for history students, writers and lovers.
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