Women in Rome

Historically women in Rome were never given the opportunity to speak their minds. All of the historical documents that are used to portray roman life where created by men. “…through the erotic and satirical poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, all written by men; through the historians and biographers, all men most of them unable to resist the salacious and the scandalous; through the letter writers and philosophers, all men; through painting and …

…already planned for them the day they were born. Their happiness seemed unimportant to not only to Rome and Ancient Greece, but in much of human history. It must have been hard for them to imagine it any other way. Being part of a “liberated” group must have been thought as taboo to many people. But, if it wasn’t for these liberated groups, society may have never gradually changed as it did. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**