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From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a wildly entertaining new history of Rome that uses the lives of twenty-one extraordinary women to upend our understanding of the ancient worldThe history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of ?the Doing of Important Things.? It is a history of winning battles, passing laws, and ?Having Important Opinions in Public.? And as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women dont make that history. From Romulus through ?the political stab-fest of the late Republic,? and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things get when women get out of control, but history is more than that.Emma Southons A Rome of Ones Own will correct that. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with the Important Things, but also all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background?or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of individuals, twenty-one women who span the length of its territory and its centuries, who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry, lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. A social and cultural history told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, A Rome of Ones Own highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world.