Julia Domna, Syrian Empress (2007)

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Julia Domna, Syrian Empress (2007)

Julia Domna, Syrian Empress (2007)

Name: Julia Domna, Syrian Empress (2007)
ISBN: 9780415331432

Barbara Levick

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This book covers Julia’s life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a sympathetic, courageous, intelligent, and important woman.

This book contains a fresh re-assessment of the one of the most significant figures of her time and questions: • Was Julia more powerful than earlier empresses? • Did she really promote despotism? • How seriously is her literary circle to be taken?

As part of a dynasty which used force and violence to preserve its rule, she was distrusted by its subjects; as a Syrian, she was the object of prejudice; as a woman with power, she was resented. On the other hand, Domna was the centre of a literary circle considered highly significant by nineteenth-century admirers.

Categories:

Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Year:

2007

Edition:

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Language:

english

Pages:

285

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