Women in Sallust: a prosopographic and historiographical study
Keywords:
Roman historiography, Sallust, women, Sempronia, Fulvia, Aurelia Orestilla, foreigner.
Abstract
The historian must study all the women mentioned in an ancient author to make a statement or a judgement about him. Only working in that way, we can understand the role of women in the Sallustian history: the roman women are denigrated as immodest and adulteress, the foreigner are praised as brave and virtuous. Despite the fact of this, we can conclude that Sallust is a good author in order to study the actuation of some women in the final years of the Roman republic, just if we ignore some aspects of his narration.Downloads
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Published
2012-06-23
How to Cite
Posadas J. L. (2012). Women in Sallust: a prosopographic and historiographical study. Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 29(1), 169-182. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_GERI.2011.v29.n1.39050
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