Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies)

by Judith Ginsburg

Agrippina the Younger ranks as one of the most powerful women in the history of the Roman empire. Judith Ginsburg's book provides a fresh look at both the literary and material representations of Agrippina. Her incisive 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 and negative depictions aimed to undermine
it.

• ISBN10: 6610428514
• ISBN13: 9786610428519
• Publish Date: 1 January 2006
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 29 February 2012
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Format: eBook
• Language: English