Fulvia: Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic, Fulvia first rose to prominence as the wife of P. Clodius Pulcher, scion of one of the city's most powerful families and one of its most infamous and scandalous politicians. In the aftermath of his murder, Fulvia refused to shrink from the glare of public scrutiny and helped to prosecute the man responsible.

Later, as the wife of Antonius, she became the most powerful woman in Rome, at one point even taking an active role in the military conflict between Antonius's allies and Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. Her husbands' enemies painted her as domineering, vicious, greedy, and petty. This book peels away the invective to reveal a strong-willed, independent woman who was, by many traditional measures, an immensely successful Roman matron.

Author: Celia E. Schultz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/13/2021
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.17w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9780197601839
ISBN10: 0197601839
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
- History | Ancient | Rome
- History | Women

About the Author

Celia E. Schultz is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic and A Commentary on Cicero, De Divinatione I.