The Roman Wedding

by Karen K. Hersch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124271
• ISBN13: 9780521124270
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"