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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.
Exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history include Lucretia and Claudia Quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance; fierce Republican-era women such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image; women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, most prominently Livia (58 BC ...
This is a list of women classicists – female scholars, translators and writers of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and ancient Rome. List [ edit ]
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According to Shelley Haley, Pomeroy's work "legitimized the study of Greek and Roman women in ancient times". [21] However, classics has been characterised as a "notoriously conservative" field, [21] and initially women's history was slow to be adopted: from 1970 to 1985, only a few articles on ancient women were published in major journals. [22]
Among the elite, names such as Pomponia Graecina became common. In still later generations, women's names bore little or no resemblance to their father's familial names. For example, in the Flavian dynasty, Titus's daughter was not Flavia. In the Severan dynasty, most women bore the first name of Julia, even if it was not the family's ...
22 Famous Women in History You Need to Learn About ASAP. Leah Marilla Thomas, Katherine J Igoe. February 22, 2024 at 10:43 AM. You Need to Know These Trailblazing Women's Names Getty/Cosmopolitan
Ancient women (43 C, 4 P) Women and the arts (9 C, 28 P) B. ... Pages in category "Women in history" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.