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Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy

Date : 2010-03-30

Page : 264

Rating : 3.5

Reviews : 5

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The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in  ~ Its good to find her now turning to the multicultural world of Greece under the Roman Empireand to a nasty case of domestic murder In one of the great scandals of secondcentury Greece Regilla the pregnant Roman wife of Greek philosopher and rhetorician Herodes died from a blow to the abdomen
The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in  ~ The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity  Born into a Roman family Regilla was married at 15 to Herodes a wealthy Greek 20 years later she died under mysterious circumstances and her brother charged Herodes with murder although he was later acquitted
Customer reviews The Murder of Regilla A  ~ Basically this book is about a real murder case from Ancient Rome A man beat his pregnant wife to death to the scandal of everyone Regillas husband was obviously gay Even the homoerotic Romans thought he paid a little bit too much attention to his male paramours
The Murder of Regilla Analysis   ~ In The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity Sarah B Pomeroy a prominent scholar of the history of women in the ancient Greek and Roman world makes a noble effort to fill this unfortunate knowledge gap and uses her vast knowledge of the social history of the Roman Empire to piece 
The Murder of Regilla — Sarah B Pomeroy  Harvard  ~ Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 CE Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes a wealthy Greek Twenty years later  and eight months pregnant with her sixth child  Regilla died under mysterious circumstances after a blow to the abdomen delivered by Herodess freedman Though Herodes was charged he was acquitted
The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in  ~ Book Review of The Murder of Regilla  A case in domestic violence in Antiquity This book comes in a pleasant little format some 170 pages plus notes and annexes which pretended to tell us all that it was possible to say about the murder of a noble lady of ancient Rome Regilla wife of Herode Atticus
The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in  ~ Details about The Murder of Regilla From an acclaimed author comes a fascinating story of the life marriage and death of an all but forgotten Roman woman Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 CE Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes a wealthy Greek who championed his countrys values at a time when Rome ruled
The murder of Regilla  a case of domestic violence in  ~ The murder of Regilla  a case of domestic violence in antiquity Sarah B Pomeroy  Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE Regilla was married at the age of fifteen to Herodes a wealthy Greek
The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in  ~ The Murder of Regilla A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity By NINA C AYOUB October 05 2007 Premium content for subscribers