Birthing Romans
Freidin, Anna Bonnell
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth and the implications for Rome's empire Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politics, even to the movements of the stars. Birthing Romans sheds critical light on the diverse ways pregnancy and childbirth were understood, experienced, and managed in ancient Rome during the first three ...