Supplementary Index to "Women and Resistance in the 'Annals' of Tacitus"

Gillespie, Caitlin C.

Supplementary Index to "Women and Resistance in the 'Annals' of Tacitus"

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Gillespie Index Locorum.pdf (156.72 KB)

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/117738

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Gillespie, Caitlin C.

Abstract

This document is an index locarum to Women and Resistance in the "Annals" of Tacitus detailing where Greek and Roman authors and their works are mentioned in the book.

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An index locarum to "Women and Resistance in the 'Annals' of Tacitus," a book which explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman woman's relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on traditional forms of power. Women engage in political protests, legal disputes, public processions, and subversive religious rituals. They demonstrate resistance in acts of mourning and commemoration and overturn gender stereotypes by enduring pain and displaying courage in death. Tacitus illustrates how women's public movements, rituals, suicides and survivals become sites of resistance and opportunities for civic engagement open to women. Caitlin C. Gillespie situates non-imperial Roman women at the fore, reading them in comparison with Tacitus's narratives of imperial women and hierarchies of power. With this new analytical approach, stereotypes against women are variously confirmed or denied, challenged or evoked as evidence, or employed as a means of attack or defense. Women emerge to claim agency over their bodies, reputations, and actions, and though a vulnerable population, refuse to be passive victims of their circumstances.

Date Issued

2026-04-15

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