Representing Agrippina : constructions of female power in the early Roman Empire /

Provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. This study exposes both the contrivances of the commissioned artists whose idealized portraits served to buttress the image of the regime and the contrasting designs of the historians whose rhetorical stereotypes a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ginsburg, Judith
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:American classical studies ; no. 50.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=151487
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Chapter 1: Agrippina in the Literary Tradition; Chapter 2: Visualizing Agrippina; Chapter 3: Agrippina and the Power of Rhetorical Stereotypes; Chart of the Julio-Claudians; Bibliography; Index