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Online Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women. WomenintheAncientWorld.com (2005). Dr. Susan Martin, Private Lives and Public Personae, 1997. WomenintheAncientWorld.com (2005). Moya K. Mason, Ancient Roman Women: A Look at their Lives. Essay on the lives of Roman women. "Wife-beating in Ancient Rome": an article by Joy Connolly in the TLS, April ...
Valeria, the name of the women of the Valeria gens. Valeria, first priestess of Fortuna Muliebris in 488 BC [1]; Aemilia Tertia (с. 230 – 163 or 162 BC), wife of Scipio Africanus and mother of Cornelia (see below), noted for the unusual freedom given her by her husband, her enjoyment of luxuries, and her influence as role model for elite Roman women after the Second Punic War.
The Romans of the Classical period had no specific word for female gladiators as a type or class. [1] The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix ...
Deified ancient Roman women (1 C, 8 P) Diana (mythology) (4 C, 41 P) F. ... Pages in category "Roman goddesses" The following 158 pages are in this category, out of ...
2nd-century AD Roman statue of a Virgo Vestalis Maxima (National Roman Museum) 1st-century BC (43–39 BC) aureus depicting a seated Vestal Virgin marked vestalis. In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals (Latin: Vestālēs, singular Vestālis [wɛsˈtaːlɪs]) were priestesses of Vesta, virgin goddess of Rome's sacred hearth and its flame.
Another woman, labelled as Pistis (Greek equivalent to Roman Fides, or "good faith"), stands before Roma with a crown of leaves raised above her head. A Roman denarius of 114/115 shows Roma with Romulus , Remus and the she-Wolf , the mythological beast who fostered them, and nourished them with her milk; the coin image implies that Roma has ...
7th-century BC Roman women (3 P) 8th-century BC Roman women (9 P) D. Daughters of Roman kings (6 P) P. Priestesses from the Roman Kingdom (4 P) Q. Queens of Rome (1 C ...
Quinta Claudia towing Cybele's ship, dressed as a Vestal Virgin. Painting by Lambert Lombard (16th century).. Quinta Claudia was a Roman matron said to have been instrumental in bringing the goddess Cybele, "Great Mother" of the gods from her shrine in Greek Asia Minor to Rome in 204 BC, during the last years of Rome's Second Punic War against Carthage.