Sabina Augusta : an Imperial Journey

Author/Creator:

Brennan, T. Corey, author

Publication/Creation:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Format:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Sabina Augusta : an Imperial Journey / T. Corey Brennan

Series Titles:

Women in antiquity
Women in antiquity.

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Vibia Sabina,approximately 88-approximately 137
Hadrian,Emperor of Rome,76-138
Empresses--Rome--Biography

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half title; Series; Sabina Augusta; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Note on Translations; Introduction; 1 â#x80;#x9C;Empressâ#x80;#x9D; at Rome; 2 Trajan and the Imperial House; 3 Sabinaâ#x80;#x99;s Personal History; 4 Hadrianâ#x80;#x99;s Personality; 5 Hadrianâ#x80;#x99;s Relationships; 6 Sabina â#x80;#x98;Augustaâ#x80;#x99;; 7 The Journey to Egypt; 8 Egypt and the Journey Home; 9 Final Years in Rome; 10 Sabinaâ#x80;#x99;s Death and Deification; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Sabina on the Coins of Rome; Appendix 2. Sculptural Portraits of Sabina; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She was the most travelled and visible empress to date. Hadrian also deified his wife upon her death. In synthesizing the textual and massive material evidence for the empress, T. Corey Brennan traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations. Furthermore, the book argues that Hadrian meant for Sabina to play a key role in promoting the public character of his rule, and details how the emperor's exaltation of his wife served to enhance his own claims to divinity. Yet the sparse literary sources on Sabina instead put the worst light on the dynamics of her marriage. Brennan fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in historiography, from antiquity through the modern era; and against the material record proposes a new and nuanced understanding of her formal role. This biographical study sheds new light not just on its subject but also more widely on Hadrian-including the vexed question of that emperor's relationship with his apparent lover Antinoös-and indeed Rome's imperial women as a group."--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource

Local Note:

Available to current Emory students, faculty and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937795884102486

ISBN:

9780190251017
0190251018
9780190875428
0190875429