# A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire - Hardcover

by **Emma Southon** (Author)

**From the acclaimed author of _A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum_, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world**

The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "the Doing of Important Things." And as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that.

Emma Southon's _A Rome of One's Own_ is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background, or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of women who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry; who lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. Told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, _A Rome of One's Own_ highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world.

### Author Biography

**Dr. Emma Southon** holds a PhD in ancient history from the University of Birmingham. The author of _A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum_; _Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of Rome_; and _Agrippina_, she works as a bookseller at Waterstones Belfast.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.9 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** November 07, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 27.0 USD
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