Women, wealth and power in the Roman Republic / edited by Catherine Steel, Lewis Webb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steel, C. E. W., editor.

Webb, Lewis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--Rome.

Elite (Social sciences).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Rome.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Women--Rome--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--Rome--Economic conditions.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome--Antiquities.

Women--Social conditions.

Women--Economic conditions.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"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, Fulvia 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"-- Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Tutela mulierum in the Roman Republic / Kit Morrell

Women and the census in the Roman Republic / Cristina Rosillo-López

Female visibility and regulations in Republican Rome / Lewis Webb

Licinnia’s dowry and property rights / Harriet I. Flower

Female patrons during the Roman Republic / Peter Keegan

A series of unfortunate events revisited / Bronwyn Hopwood

Roman matrons’ wealth between politics and clichés / Francesca Rohr Vio and Alessandra Valentini

Beyond jewellery : female economic roles in the late Republic / Giulia Vettori

Sectrix proscriptionum : women at the proscriptions / Carolyn Tobin

Contested memories : Scipionic and Gracchan matronae / J. Lea Beness and Tom Hillard

Mucia Tertia : resources of matronage / Christiane Kunst

Octavia Minor : the last civil war matron / Christian Hjorth Bagger

There will be blood : Fulvia and the funeral of Clodius / Carsten Hjort Lange

The gendered physicality of power in the Roman Republic / Ash Finn

Paideia and politics : the case of Octavia Minor / Lien Van Geel

Plus ça change? Women, property and “Western civilization” / Kathryn Welch and Carol Scott

Women, wealth and power in the Roman Republic / Judith Peller Hallett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed March 5, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Women, wealth and power in the Roman Republic

ISBN:

9781009691864

1009691864

OCLC:

1573649386

Publisher Number:

CIPO000339099

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license