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Flavius Josèphe et le rôle des femmes en politique, de Cléopâtre à Antonia
Cogitore, Isabelle
2016-06-28
Abstract
This paper aims at showing how Flavius Josephus represents three major networks of
political influence between women: the first between Alexandra, mother of Mariamme
and Cleopatra; the second between Salome, Herod’s sister and Livia; and the last one
between Berenice and Antonia. Josephus shows these networks operate, namely through
messengers and letters, and establishes a kind of feminine political network, parallel to
men’s relationship, but sometimes involving men as well. The most important constatation
is that Hellenistic women and Roman women of the Principate used the same kind
of network, all over the Roman world: political action for women went through the same
channels, in both the Hellenistic and imperial courts.
Series
Polymnia. Collana di Scienze dell'Antichità. Studi di Storia romana
5
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Isabelle Cogitore, "Flavius Josèphe et le rôle des femmes en politique, de Cléopâtre à Antonia" in: Francesca Cenerini e Francesca Rohr Vio (a cura di), "Matronae in domo et in re publica agentes - spazi e occasioni dell'azione femminile nel mondo romano tra tarda repubblica e primo impero", Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016, pp. 323-337
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fr
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