Emma Southon
Auteur van A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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Emma Southon has a PhD in Ancient History from the University of Birmingham and researches subjects of sex, the family, gender, and religion. She holds a long running obsession with the bad guys of the Roman empire, blogs at emmasouthon.com, and tweets at @NuclearTeeth. She lives in England.
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As Southon reminds us, women had an important role in Roman society, which was very family oriented indeed -- extended families were also political clans. But much of what we know about women in antiquity was written by men, and some of them, such as Juvenalis or Tacitus, wrote with undisguised misogyny. (Juvenalis’ notorious sixth satire is at least good satire in the sense that you cannot know whether the author intends his furious rant to be taken seriously or not.)
This book gives a wider and more honest perspective. Some of the women in this book are only known by what men wrote about them. (In one case, a lengthy eulogy by a bereaved husband.) But Southon also chose many women who wrote themselves and whose words have survived through the ages, a dismally small group. In letters, poetry, inscriptions and edicts, they make themselves heard. They are not always very sympathetic, and Southon is particularly snarky about the weird attitudes of some Christian saints. Maybe they didn’t all write well. But they lived, their often struggled bravely in their adversity, and they wrote. It is good that we can still hear their story.… (meer)