{"product_id":"women-in-fragments-alternative-histories-of-the-roman-republic-hardback-9780299357801","title":"Women in Fragments; Alternative Histories of the Roman Republic (Hardback) 9780299357801","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen in Fragments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAlternative Histories of the Roman Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJessica H. Clark (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299357801\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 August 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e218 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“A clear-eyed yet optimistic assessment of our extant, mostly fragmentary, historical sources on women in the Roman Republic that offers compelling evidence for women’s integration within the Roman civic body. A must-read for all of us who teach Roman political history as though only men made it.” - Alison Keith, author of \u003ci\u003eEngendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Imaginatively explores the evolving representations of women within the Roman Republican historiographical tradition. Clark vividly conveys how male authors mold and remold images of women to meet evolving political needs.\" \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing: 0.06em;\"\u003e- Matthew Roller, author of \u003ci\u003eModels from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur sources of knowledge about women in the ancient Roman Republic are flawed. Roman historians were uniformly male, as were most historians of ancient Rome until quite recently. In the historiography handed down by Enlightenment-era scholars, women generally played marginal and often sexualized roles, relegated to the footnotes by historians who assumed the Roman Republic to be fully androcentric. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise. In this detailed and insightful volume, Jessica H. Clark returns to the source material to gain insight into how Roman men understood the lives, roles, and contributions of the women they wrote about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReexamining the puzzle pieces of ancient literature, Clark proposes that the earliest Roman historians represented women in complex ways, revealing their appreciation of women's communities and women's engagement in the project of the Republic, in contrast to the attitudes assumed by scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She attributes those scholars' assumptions to the social and political circumstances of their own times and demonstrates how these assumptions have continued to inform our own perceptions of Roman women and therefore Roman society more generally. This study ultimately uncovers not only the women of the Roman Republic but also how modern preconceptions have distorted their image and the stories we tell about ancient Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Fragmentation and Restoration \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Imagining Women: Fragments Before the Foundation \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: “\u003cbr\u003eRoman”\u003cbr\u003e Women: The Fragments That Built the City \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Cato the Elder: Fragmentary Assumptions \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Chiomara: Fragments of Real Life \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Naturalized Selection \u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Authors Discussed in the text \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Index Locorum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52569946259736,"sku":"9780299357801","price":79.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/women-in-fragments-alternative-histories-of-the-roman-republic-hardback-9780299357801","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}