Sabina Augusta : An Imperial Journey, Paperback by Brennan, T. Corey, Like Ne...

Description: Sabina Augusta : An Imperial Journey, Paperback by Brennan, T. Corey, ISBN 0197551793, ISBN-13 9780197551790, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and
continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She was the most travelled and visible empress to date. Hadrian also deified his wife upon her death.

In synthesizing the textual and massive material evidence for the empress, T. Corey Brennan traces the development of Sabinas partnership with her husband and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrians own aspirations. Furthermore, th argues that Hadrian meant for Sabina to play
a key role in promoting the public character of his rule, and details how the emperors exaltation of his wife served to enhance his own claims to divinity. Yet the sparse literary sources on Sabina instead put the worst light on the dynamics of her marriage.

Brennan fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in historiography, from antiquity through the modern era; and against the material record proposes a new and nuanced understanding of her formal role. This biographical study sheds new light not just on
its subject but also more widely on Hadrian-including the vexed question of that emperors relationship with his apparent lover Antinos-and indeed Romes imperial women as a group.

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