Working from 200 words of textual references, sculptural representations, and other sources, [Brennan] effects a remarkable reconstruction of an iconic empress. (Harvard Magazine)
Brennan is to be commended for producing a clearly written and accessible book that thoroughly documents these changes in the representation of Sabina. (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
A broad view, copious details and illustrations, and lively presentation mark Sabina Augusta: An Imperial Journey. Overcoming the ancient disinterest in women that extended even to Hadrian's wife Sabina and other most imperial women, Brennan's exploration of Sabina enjoyably and memorably elucidates Roman imperial power and its effects in Italy and the provinces. The book appealingly presents its subjects as humans, sensitively treating the outstanding coinage, evocative sculpture, and enigmatic literary and other sources for the Hadrianic period. Sabina will be a major contribution to Roman social history, especially the history of Roman women. (Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University)
A meticulously researched and detailed study that probes the surviving evidence (especially inscriptions, coins and sculpture, not least as a counterbalance to the hostile literary sources) about the emperor Hadrian's wife Sabina and, in the process, reveals much about the nature of Roman imperial power in the second century AD. It will be required reading for anyone interested in the reign of the enigmatic emperor Hadrian and, more generally, in the evolving strategies that Roman emperors devised to solidify their rule. (Jonathan Edmondson, York University)
Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous series of coins minted at Rome. She was the most travelled and visible empress to date. Hadrian also deified his wife upon her death.
In synthesizing the textual and massive material evidence for the empress, T. Corey Brennan traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations. Furthermore, the book argues that Hadrian meant for Sabina to play a key role in promoting the public character of his rule, and details how the emperor's exaltation of his wife served to enhance his own claims to divinity. Yet the sparse literary sources on Sabina instead put the worst light on the dynamics of her marriage.
Brennan fully explores the various, and overwhelmingly negative, notions this empress stirred up in historiography, from antiquity through the modern era; and against the material record proposes a new and nuanced understanding of her formal role. This biographical study sheds new light not just on its subject but also more widely on Hadrian-including the vexed question of that emperor's relationship with his apparent lover Antinoös-and indeed Rome's imperial women as a group.
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