IRON CHANGED EVERYTHING: 6/8: A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
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The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of “the Doing of Important Things.” And as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don’t 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 become when women get out of control, but history is more than that.
Emma Southon’s A Rome of One’s Own is the best kind of correction. This is a retelling of the history of Rome with all the things Roman history writers relegate to the background, or designate as domestic, feminine, or worthless. This is a history of women who caused outrage, led armies in rebellion, wrote poetry; who lived independently or under the thumb of emperors. Told with humor and verve as well as a deep scholarly background, A Rome of One’s Own highlights women overlooked and misunderstood, and through them offers a fascinating and groundbreaking chronicle of the ancient world
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| 0:00.0 | Emma Southern's here. Her new book is A Rome of One's Own, the forgotten women of the Roman Empire. |
| 0:09.0 | We've spent on with Julia getting even with Augustus, but now the Empire in the first AD is the product of Augustus' |
| 0:16.4 | strong-mindedness, I'll be fair-minded here. And he's succeeded by Tiberius and Claudius and we all know Kalegula and then Nero and then Nero commits suicide in a strange fashion and it passes on to the Flavians and what we're looking at here is that first century not in Rome, |
| 0:38.4 | not even on the continent, but in Britain, Roman Britain was about as far as you could get from the center. |
| 0:45.0 | And yet there was success. |
| 0:48.0 | Claudius conquers it. |
| 0:49.0 | Their cities built up. |
| 0:51.0 | Londinium is the one we know as London, Colchester and others. But there are |
| 0:55.8 | Roman tribes that the English students I've met are very proud of and there are two in particular the Burgantes and the Ice and I |
| 1:04.4 | are close into London the Burganties are in the north. I don't know my geography |
| 1:10.5 | that well but I do know that the Burgganties are major important and they're |
| 1:14.7 | led by Kartamandua whom you've not heard of you've heard of the other one |
| 1:19.2 | Budica so let us start with the Cartomandia because she understands as the Queen of the Burganties |
| 1:27.0 | that the Romans are not to be defeated, they're to be pleased. And is that a popular opinion when she picks it up? Is she alone of |
| 1:35.8 | all the tribes leaders? Is she the one who understands that you can deal with the |
| 1:39.6 | Romans? You don't have to fight them. |
| 1:42.1 | She is certainly one of the, I think it's probably a majority opinion once the Roman kind of initial |
| 1:50.6 | war of conquest is pretty short and then 11 kings and queens |
| 1:56.4 | submit to Claudius when he has invaded in 43 and she is probably one of those or her predecessors and a lot of |
| 2:08.8 | the rulers of Roman, kind of pre-Roman Britain will agree including Budica's predecessors so Prasatagius, her husband and her what is either his father or her father. |
| 2:20.0 | I do originally work with the Romans because the Romans do appear as an overwhelming force |
| 2:27.0 | particularly in kind of southeast England which is where Budica is and Northern England initially, they are, they're quite |
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