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The murder of Regilla : a case of domestic violence in antiquity / Sarah B. Pomeroy.

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Born to an illustrious Roman family in 125 BCE, 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 Herodes's freedman. Th...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Pomeroy, Sarah B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Regilla.
Herodes Atticus.
Uxoricide > Greece > Athens > History > Case studies.
Wife abuse > Greece > Athens > History > Case studies.
Trials (Murder) > Rome > History > Case studies.
Upper class women > Greece > Athens > Biography.
Upper class women > Rome > Biography.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Genre:Electronic books.
Related Items:Contained in: EBSCOhost Ebook Collection.
Print version: Murder of Regilla.
Table of Contents:
  • Genealogical chart
  • Regilla's and Herodes' family
  • Introduction
  • Girlhood in Rome
  • A Roman matron in imperial Athens
  • Public life
  • Death in Athens and murder trial in Rome
  • Regilla's final resting place
  • Chronological chart.

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