Women in Antiquity: New Assessments

by Richard Hawley (Editor), Barbara Levick (Editor)

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Explores and expands on scholarly debates on the status and representation women in antiquity; invaluable reading for all students and teachers of ancient history.

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Richard Hawley

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Barbara Levick

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Barbara Levick is Fellow and Tutor Emeritus, St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has published extensively on Roman history, with titles including Auaustus. Image and Substance (2010) and Imperial Women of the Golden Age: Faustina I and II (2014).