Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women
Writer and activist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls. Her new book reinterprets the bloody, violent story of imperial women at the hands of (in no particular order) Nero, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula – and others.
These imperial mothers, daughters and wives – were the most privileged women of their time but their lives were overshadowed, dominated and controlled by these men. Raped, killed, ripped apart from their children, and mostly airbrushed from history, Joan Smith brings these women back into light and into focus, offering an account of their extraordinary and tragic lives.
