Faustina I and II : imperial women of the golden age / Barbara Levick.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levick, Barbara
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, Inc., [2014]
Series:Women in antiquity.
Subjects:
Faustina, Annia Galeria, > Empress, consort of Antoninus Pius, Emperor of Rome, > 104-140 or 141.
Faustina, Annia Galeria, > Empress, consort of Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, > -175.
Empresses > Rome > Biography.
Rome > History > Antoninus Pius, 138-161.
Rome > History > Marcus Aurelius, 161-180.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:248 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Sources
  • The empresses and women's power
  • The succession to Hadrian
  • The Faustinas as empresses, 138-75
  • Public and private in the dynasty
  • The deified Faustinas: association, assimilation, and consecration
  • Faustina's children and the end of the Antonines.