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The Good Wife: Fate, Fortune, and Familia in Augustan Rome

Bronwyn Hopwood

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Abstract

Preserved in the Museo Nazionale Terme Di Diocleziano and Villa Albani are the fragments of a handsome inscription (CIL 6.41062). Pieced together, they reveal part of a funeral oration, a laudatio, spoken by a husband to his deceased wife. Of the titulus where the names of the husband and wife would have appeared, only the word [u]xoris remains. The inscription, popularly known as the Laudatio Turiae, tells the story of a remarkable woman and her family, faced with the trials of civil war and Augustan Rome.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Alternative Augustan Age
EditorsKit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, Kathryn Welch
Place of PublicationNew York, United States of America
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages63-77
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9780190901400, 0190901403, 9780190901417, 9780190901431, 9780190901424, 0190901411, 0190901438, 019090142X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Dec 2019

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