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Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic

Paperback

Series: Women in Antiquity

Biographies GeneralAncient RomeGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0197601839
ISBN13: 9780197601839
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Aug 13 2021
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic, Fulvia first rose to prominence as the
wife of P. Clodius Pulcher, scion of one of the city's most powerful families and one of its most infamous and scandalous politicians. In the aftermath of his murder, Fulvia refused to shrink from the glare of public scrutiny and helped to prosecute the man responsible.

Later, as the wife of Antonius, she became the most powerful woman in Rome, at one point even taking an active role in the military conflict between Antonius's allies and Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. Her husbands' enemies painted her as domineering, vicious, greedy, and petty. This book

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