CHAPTER SIX. Roman Women’s Useless Knowledge

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. CHAPTER ONE. Latin Literature and the Problem of Rome 15
6. CHAPTER TWO. Why Was Latin Literature Invented? 34
7. CHAPTER THREE. Cicero and the Bandits 69
8. CHAPTER FOUR. Culture Wars in the First Century B.C.E. 88
9. CHAPTER FIVE. Writing as Social Performance 103
10. CHAPTER SIX. Roman Women’s Useless Knowledge 122
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. An Aristocracy of Virtue 137
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. Pannonia Domanda Est: The Construction of the Imperial Subject through Ovid’s Poetry from Exile 151
13. Notes 171
14. INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED 223
15. GENERAL INDEX 229