The Roman Wedding

by Karen K. Hersch

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 (from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521196108
• ISBN13: 9780521196109
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"