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“ Women’s Rights in Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire” by Jordan Kennedy, Hanover, accessed February 3, 2020. If you want to find out more about the life of Julius Caesar, look no further! It’s got at least seven parts and it is fabulous. “Julius Caesar (the series).” Ancient History Fangirl, 2019. “Fulvia: The Real Gangster of Ancient Rome.” Ancient History Fangirl, 2019. (found at Internet Archive)Ĭleopatra: A Life by Stacey Schiff, Little, Brown and Company, 2010. by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge MA/London 1967.
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VII Demosthenes/Cicero/Alexander/Caesar, ed.
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Women at War in the Classical World by Paul Chrystal, Pen and Sword Military, 2017.Īntony & Cleopatra by Pat Southern, Amberley Publishing, 2009. Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome by Richard A. Simon and Schuster, 2010.Įncyclopedia of Women in the Ancient World, edited by Joyce Salisbury. ABC Clio, 2001.Īgrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Ancient World by Emma Southon (the USA edition is called Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Huster, Whore) Let’s go traveling.Ĭaesar’s Wives: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire by Annelise Freisenbruch. Who were these women, beyond the myths, legends, and smear campaigns? What decisions did they have to make, and what did it cost them to make them? Grab a purple stola, a silver tongue, and a few vials of poison. We’ll journey from the rough-and-tumble days of the late Roman Republic and see it through to its end, then into the first heady decades of the Roman Empire and the Julio-Claudian dynasty that ran the show for many decades. So let’s explore the lives of the women who lived during some of Rome’s most dramatic and game-changing periods.
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These women lived during tumultuous times: we’ll see them navigate unwanted marriages, political intrigue, exile to small islands, poisonous plots, poorly executed coups, bloodthirsty sons, cutthroat politics and MANY male haters, all while trying to stay alive and on top of the game in one of the world’s most successful of empires. Sometimes that tightrope was more of a knife’s edge. But when you read between the lines, we find women who stepped out from behind the shadows of their husbands and fathers to grasp real power and influence.īut these dominas, or “female masters,” couldn’t just march out and take what they wanted instead they had to be smart and calculating, walking a tightrope between respectability and their own ambition. The tales we get of their lives come from male writers with their own agendas and prejudices, who treat them as cautionary tales and side stories as they write about important men. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, and in a society that coveted public glory, ambitious women found their way into the history books too, even if just in scraps and unflattering snatches. Theirs was a distinctly patriarchal world, true fame and public achievement was supposed to be reserved for men. She wove such fine wool she kept such a fine house she was so very chaste and never made her father look bad! They weren’t welcome in the public sphere of governance. Any fame she won was supposed to be confined to the private, domestic sphere. In ancient Rome, a woman was defined in relation to her family.