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A short review of Hemelrijk's 2016 book "Hidden Lives, Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West".
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Gives an overview of the book's content and what I see as its main contributions to academic debate.
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I really enjoyed reading this important new contribution to the scholarship on epigraphy as evidence for women's civic lives, and I hope that comes across from the review.
Dr Liz Gloyn
Royal Holloway University of London
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This page is a summary of: INSIGHTS INTO WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE. E.A. Hemelrijk
Hidden Lives, Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West. Pp. xxii + 610, figs, maps, pls. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Cased, £55, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-025188-8., The Classical Review, October 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x16001943.
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