OSGOOD, J.,
Turia. A Roman Woman's Civil War.
Oxford University Press, 2014. 240p. Paperback. Series: Women in Antiquity. Osgood skillfully interweaves the story of the unnamed wife (Turia) with those of other prominent women, mostly from senatorial families, and allows the experience of each individual woman to inform that of others, using both comparisons and contrasts. In this way this discussion offers far more than a single biographical sketch; rather, it explores the huge cultural changes of these years in terms of the experiences of two generations of elite Roman women. Insightful treatments of most of the prominent women whom we know about in the mid to late first century BC encourage a whole new way of looking at Roman women, their social and political roles. Meanwhile, Osgood's analysis of the famous inscription itself is fresh, lucid, and flawless. Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University |a 13/02/15 (Publisher's information).
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