Helena Augusta Mother of the Empire

Helena Augusta Mother of the Empire
- ISBN 13:
9780190875305
- ISBN 10:
0190875305
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/29/2022
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Hillner shows that Helena's story was not just determined by the love of a son or the rise of Christianity. It was also--like that of many other late Roman women--defined by male violence and by the web of changing female relationships around her, to which Helena was sometimes marginal, sometimes central and sometimes ancillary. Helena Augusta offers unique insight into the roles of imperial women in Constantinian self-display and in dynastic politics from the Tetrarchy to the Theodosian Age, and it also reminds us that the late Roman female life course, even that of an empress, was fragile and non-linear.