Karen K Hersch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4989399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen K Hersch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen K |
| FAMILY NAME | Hersch |
| SIGNATURE | HERSCH K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi
Cornelia (ca. 190–102 BCE ), the second daughter of the famed general P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus and his wife Aemilia, married T. Sempronius Gracchus ca. 175 and was said to have borne him twelve children.
Confarreatio
Of the three methods by which a Roman woman could enter into the manus of her husband ( confarreatio , usus , and coemptio ), only confarreatio seems to have been understood by Romans as a religious wedding ceremony accompanied by the acquisition of manus . Usus implied cohabitation for one uninterrupted year, and coemptio the exchanging of goods or money in a symbolic sale.
The Roman Wedding
The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire …
Violentilla Victa
This paper explores how in Silvae 1.2 Statius provided an important precedent for later epithalamia by expanding the genre's rhetoric with epic topoi, creating a novel epithalamium of epic scope. Violentilla is bound to be tamed under the yoke of Rome, just as the power of Aphrodite brings Medea to live among civilized Greeks in Apollonius's Argonautica. Violentilla is transformed from recalcitrant widow into a subdued and Romanized bride. As fri…
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Violentilla Victa
This paper explores how in Silvae 1.2 Statius provided an important precedent for later epithalamia by expanding the genre's rhetoric with epic topoi, creating a novel epithalamium of epic scope. Violentilla is bound to be tamed under the yoke of Rome, just as the power of Aphrodite brings Medea to live among civilized Greeks in Apollonius's Argonautica. Violentilla is transformed from recalcitrant widow into a subdued and Romanized bride. As fri…
The Roman Wedding
The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal, historical, antiquarian, and artistic evidence of Roman nuptials from the end of the Republic through the early Empire …
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi
Cornelia (ca. 190–102 BCE ), the second daughter of the famed general P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus and his wife Aemilia, married T. Sempronius Gracchus ca. 175 and was said to have borne him twelve children.
Confarreatio
Of the three methods by which a Roman woman could enter into the manus of her husband ( confarreatio , usus , and coemptio ), only confarreatio seems to have been understood by Romans as a religious wedding ceremony accompanied by the acquisition of manus . Usus implied cohabitation for one uninterrupted year, and coemptio the exchanging of goods or money in a symbolic sale.
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Ceremony (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art history (1 work)