{"product_id":"9781647006082","title":"A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Clever, bold, and refreshingly feminist; readers will be engaged and entertained to the very end.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e(Booklist)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis wildly entertaining new history of Rome uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world, from the acclaimed author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eA Rome of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmma Southon's \u003ci\u003eA Rome of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers have relegated to the background, or designated as domestic, feminine, or worthless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abrams Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46514080612593,"sku":"9781647006082","price":16.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781647006082_p0.jpg?v=1765450730","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781647006082","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}