The Capture of the Sabine Women
The Capture of the Sabine Women

Author: Nathan Kilgore

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-10-07

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0557556732

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After spending a year in the African village of Kiboyo, Adam Moxley ventures to another small village in the Ugandan bush. There, he assists a local pastor at a small orphanage,coming face to face with children dying of AIDS.Before heading back to the United States, Adam stops in Venice, where he meets up with his good friend Tom. While Tom and Adam enjoy the richness of Venice, Adam soon forgets about thetragedy in Uganda when he meets and falls in love with Jade, an American studying abroad.Adam's attention is quickly pulled back to the Ugandan orphans, however, when he learns that the children are being sold into slavery and child prostitution. Adam is shattered when hediscovers the one behind the exploitation, and he becomes determined to bring an end to the tragedy.Referencing the history behind Giambologna's 1574 sculpture The Capture of the Sabine Women, Kilgore's novel floats the reader down the waterways of Venice, leaving passion andjustice in its wake.Edited by Corene Israel

Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome
Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome

Author: Sara Elise Phang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-03-22

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1440871698

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This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social, economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and occupations of women taking part in public life as textile producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in translation.

Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics
Rape of Lucretia and the Founding of Republics

Author: Melissa M. Matthes

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780271039343

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Matthes (U. of Maryland) stages a conversation between feminism and republicanism to analyze the linkage between "founding stories" of republics, sexual violence, and gender hierarchy. While pointing out the differences in the retellings of Lucretia's rape by Livy, Machiavelli, and Rousseau, she argues that their commonality is in appropriating the classical tale to support the view that the alternative to violence is citizenship and politics infused with common good notions of agency, action, and community. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Visions of Empire
Visions of Empire

Author: Krishan Kumar

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 0691192804

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"In this extraordinary volume, Krishan Kumar provides us with a brilliant tour of some of history's most important empires, demonstrating the critical importance of imperial ideas and ideologies for understanding their modalities of rule and the conflicts that beset them. In doing so, he interrogates the contested terrain between nationalism and empire and the legacies that empires leave behind."--Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University "This is an excellent book with original insights into the history of empires and the discourses and rhetoric of their rulers and defenders. Kumar's writing is lively and free of jargon, and his research is prodigious. He manages to bring clarity and perspective to a complex subject."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author of "They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide "A masterly piece of work."--Anthony Pagden, author of The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

The Peoples of Ancient Italy
The Peoples of Ancient Italy

Author: Gary D. Farney

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 856

ISBN-13: 1501500147

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Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive view of each of them—the famous and the less well-known—that existed in Iron Age and Roman Italy. Moreover, many previous studies have focused only on the material evidence for these groups or on what the literary sources have to say about them. This handbook is conceived of as a resource for archaeologists, historians, philologists and other scholars interested in finding out more about Italic groups from the earliest period they are detectable (early Iron Age, in most instances), down to the time when they begin to assimilate into the Roman state (in the late Republican or early Imperial period). As such, it will endeavor to include both archaeological and historical perspectives on each group, with contributions from the best-known or up-and-coming archaeologists and historians for these peoples and topics. The language of the volume is English, but scholars from around the world have contributed to it. This volume covers the ancient peoples of Italy more comprehensively in individual chapters, and it is also distinct because it has a thematic section.

Peoples of the Pacific
Peoples of the Pacific

Author: Paul D'Arcy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 1351912259

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Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pacific Islander-European interactions from the perspective of Pacific Islanders themselves. A number of recorded traditions are reproduced as well as articles by Pacific Island scholars working within the academy. The nature of Pacific History as a sub-discipline is presented through a sample of key articles from the 1890s until the present that represent the historical evolution of the field and its multidisciplinary nature. The volume reflects on how the indigenous inhabitants of the Pacific Islands have a history as dynamic and complex as that of literate societies, and one that is more retrievable through multidisciplinary approaches than often realized.

The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235)
The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235)

Author: Sara Elise Phang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9789004121553

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Roman soldiers were forbidden to marry during service; many formed "de facto" families. This book analyzes the evidence for this ban; the social and legal history of the soldiers' families; and the marriage ban as policy and as cultural formation.