Livy's Women

Peter Keegan is a Professor in Roman History at Macquarie University, Australia. His research ranges from sexuality and body history to the spatial dynamics of social relations in urban and periurban contexts and the epigraphy of ephemeral graffiti and death. His recent publications include Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World, Graffiti in Antiquity, Roles for Women and Men in Roman Epigraphic Culture, and Written Space in the Latin West 200 BC-AD 300. He has also contributed a range of book chapters, journal articles and conference papers on the subject of gendered discourse in historical and sub-literary texts.

• List of Tables; Foreword: Setting the Scene; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: AUC history: women and the art of exemplary storytelling; Chapter Two: Gendered collectives in Livy: the agmen mulierum and independent female demonstrations in AUC history; Chapter Three: The rhetoric of the unfamiliar other: non-Roman women in AUC history; Chapter Four: Topoi, tropes and the female: the rhetorical memory of the annalist tradition; Afterword: Final Observations; Bibliography; Index

"K.’s book is essential for students and scholars interested in the study and narrative composition of the end of the Republic. It is an exhaustive and rigorous work on Livy’s literary expertise and his practical incorporation of women as relevant actors at crucial moments in the history of Rome." - The Classical Review