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In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets - and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.
Contents
Introduction Catherine Steel and Lewis Webb; Part I. Institutional Parameters: 1. Agnates, false tutors, and rubber stamps: Tutela mulierum in the Roman Republic Kit Morrell; 2. Women and the census in the Roman republic Cristina Rosillo-López; 3. Exstare monumentum: female visibility and regulations in republican Rome Lewis Webb; 4. Women's property rights and political crisis in republican Rome: the dowry of Licinnia, wife of Gaius Gracchus Harriet Flower; 5. Female patrons during the Roman republic: the epigraphic record Peter Keegan; Part II. Economic Power: 6. A series of unfortunate events: 'polybius on Roman women and property' revisited Bronwyn Hopwood; 7. Roman matrons' wealth between political action and disapproving clichés Francesca Rohr Vio and Alessandra Valentini; 8. Beyond mundus and ornatus muliebris: elite women as property owners and managers in the late republican economy Giulia Vettori; 9. Sectrix proscriptionum: women and the proscription auctions Carolyn Tobin; Part III. Prominent Women: 10. Contested Memories: Women of the Scipionic and Gracchan Eras Lea Beness and Tom Hillard; 11. Mucia tertia: resources of matronage Christiane Kunst; 12. Octavia minor: the last civil war matron of the republic Christian Hjorth Bagger; Part IV. Women and Crisis: 13. There will be blood: Fulvia and the funeral of Clodius Carsten Hjort Lange; 14. Violent women and violence towards women: the physicality of power in the Roman republic Ash Finn; 15. 'per sororis commendationem seruasti': Octavia minor's mixed paideia and politics Lien Van Geel; Coda; 16. Plus ça change? Women, property, and 'western civilization' Kathryn Welch and Carol Scott; Afterword; 17. Women, wealth, and power in the Roman republic Judith Peller Hallett; Bibliography.
