Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-333) and indexes.
Reading and writing gender on the Augustan Palatine -- Other men's wives: domesticity and display in Vitruvius' De Architectura -- Women, history, and the law -- Domestic disturbance: talking about the Triumvirs in the early Empire -- Natural urges: marriage, philosophy, and the work of the house -- Epilogue: burning down the house: Nero and the end of Julio-Claudian rule