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Caesars Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire
by Annelise Freisenbruch
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An Exclusive Authorlink Interview with Annelise Freisenbruch,
Author of Caesars Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire.
By Diane Slocum
March
Todays desperate housewives have nothing on the women who supported or plotted against the Caesars of the Roman Empire. Freisenbruch follows the winding branches, more like a tangled grapevine than a family tree, which brought successive generations of wives, mothers and sisters to the exalted title of Augusta during years of Roman rule.
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AUTHORLINK: How did your background prepare you to write this book?
FREISENBRUCH: I am a Classicist by training and did my doctorate at Cambridge University. My specialty was Latin literature I wrote my PhD thesis on the letters between the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Fronto but I had a reasonable grasp of
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Annelise Freisenbruch
Annelise Freisenbruch was born in in Paget, Bermuda, and moved to the UK at the age of eight. She studied Classics to postgraduate level at Cambridge University, receiving a PhD in for her thesis on the correspondence between the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and his tutor Cornelius Fronto. During that time, she also taught Classics at a private school in Cambridge. She has worked as a research assistant on a number of popular books and films about the ancient world, and regularly gives talks to schools about Classics in popular culture. Annelise Freisenbruch was the researcher to Bettany Hughes on her critically acclaimed book Helen of Troy (Vintage). She was also a specialist series researcher on the BBC1 docu-drama series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, and is currently working on films on Attila the Hun and Spartacus for the BBC. Annelise holds a PhD in Classics from Cambridge University and has worked as a freelance history researcher in the media for the last four years. She lives in Cambridge, where she teaches Latin to middle-school children. Caesars' Wives is her first book.