Women in Roman Republican Drama (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

by David Konstan (Editor), David Konstan (Editor), Dorota Dutsch (Editor), Dorota Dutsch (Editor), Sharon L. James (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2015

  $67.56

  Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. This is the first book to confront directly the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, as well as to examine the role of gender in the influence of this tradition on later dramatists.