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Article: Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic.(Book review)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic. By Celia E. Schultz. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 248. $39.95.)
The author of this book presents its central claim forthrightly in the introduction: "Roman women were more fully engaged in the religious life of their communities and of their families than appears from a standard reading of the literature, both ancient and modern," and a little later on the same page she states, "Roman religion was far more gender-inclusive than is usually presented" (5). As one may deduce, the book is clearly written and mercifully uncluttered by jargon: the argument proceeds not from any ...