Cornelia : Mother of the Gracchi (Paperback)

1. Fact and Fable: sorting out the sources. Reconstructing a woman's life. What's left? Tradition and transmission. Why Cornelia?. Sempronia, guardian of the family legend? 2. People, Politics, Propaganda.Politics and pedigrees, 154-122 BCE. How political was Cornelia?. Cornelia, Sempronia and post-Gracchan propaganda, 122-100 BCE 40. 3.Culture Wars.Youth going to pot. Hellenomania: rhetoric, philosophy and literature. Villa life: luxus and otium. 4. The Icon. Mater piissima: "My children are my je". 5.Afterlife. Cornelia's Christian Afterlife. Cornelia as continuing patron and subject of the arts. Cyber-Cornelia: trawling the net.