<p>In this piece Mary Gilmore Williams uses literary and epigraphic evidence to reconstruct a portrait of two key women of the second century AD, Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Cara-calla, and her niece Julia Mamaea.</p>
Studies in the Lives of Roman Empresses
โ Scribed by Mary Williams
- Publisher
- Gorgias Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 51
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
In this piece Mary Gilmore Williams uses literary and epigraphic evidence to reconstruct a portrait of two key women of the second century AD, Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus and mother of Cara-calla, and her niece Julia Mamaea.
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